Covid-19: Fewer boys have been born in England and Wales within the early stage of the pandemic

The covid-19 pandemic has been linked to a decline within the proportion of male infants being born, consistent with earlier findings that fewer boys are born after population-wide tense occasions

By Alice Klein

There have been fewer male infants born in England and Wales in mid 2020 than anticipated, presumably as a result of the stress of the covid-19 pandemic led to extra pregnancy losses of male fetuses.

Outdoors of the pandemic, extra male infants are usually born than feminine ones. Between 2012 and 2020, 1054 boys have been born for each 1000 women annually on common in England and Wales.

Nobody is bound why this occurs. It might be as a result of boys …