Doctors say COVID-19 pandemic caused drop in 2020 Ohio birth rates
Sarah Buck Davis and her husband, Brock Davis, had planned to add to their family last year. The Northwest Side couple have a 2-year-old daughter, Sutton, and figured it was a good time to give her a sibling. But the COVID-19 pandemic that began in March, “threw a wrench into that,” Sarah Davis said. She had just graduated with her master’s degree, and with the economy tanking in the spring, it took longer than expected to find a job as a nurse practitioner. On top of that were the medical concerns of being pregnant during a pandemic. “Having a second kid is not cheap, and I also ha...