back in july i started tracking some worrying trends in swedish birth rates. this trend seems to be appearing all over the west/OECD but as i said then, sweden seemed a particularly good test subject because:
- they provide good data
- it goes back 25 years
- they did not engage in much lockdown so that is not a confounding factor to the extent it is in most of the rest of the west
- they had a high vaxx rate
there has been quite a lot of speculation about whether the covid vaccines are causing fertility issues and i have been, for some months, assessing two competing theories on the unprecedented drops in birth rate.
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