[Yuri]

US vital statistics for the first half of 2020 are available, and as it'ss expected, Covid had a huge impact.

Number of births declined from 1.814 million (Jan-Jun 2019) to 1.778 million (Jan-Jun 2020) and deaths climbed from 1.443 million to 1.626 million.

The way things are developing, natural growth in the US will be around 250,000 or so in 2020, down from 900,000 last year and from 1.9 million mere 13 years ago (2007).