Teen pregnancies declined in Minnesota in 2022 after increasing in 2021, easing concerns that the COVID-19 pandemic had upset decades of progress on teen and adolescent sexual health. Teen pregnancies have declined more than 70% in Minnesota since 1990.;Whether teens had more sex amid the pandemic is unclear, because Minnesota only surveys students every three years on their social and health behaviors and has no data for 2020 and 2021. The pandemic-era trends differed slightly in Minnesota when it comes to teen births, which declined each year and reached a low of 1,496 in 2022. Teen abortions continued to rise in Minnesota in 2022, even though pregnancies and births declined. Sexually transmitted infections also continued to decline among teens through the pandemic years, the U report showed, but that could be partly due to a decline in testing.

Source: Fox News June 12, 2024 15:54 UTC