Wonder how much of this is due to the relatively recent trend of having dual incomes with both parents working?
Cause and effect might be hard to tease out but it’s looking like there are some drastic differences in babies that were born early in the pandemic:
> only about 5% of the lockdown babies had developed a food allergy at age one, compared to 22.8% in the pre-COVID group.
> Of the lockdown babies only 17% needed an antibiotic by the age of one. In the pre-pandemic group, 80% of infants had taken antibiotics by 12 months
Can’t find a link to the original study at the moment but here’s a secondary source:
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-pandemic-babies-develope...
