Breaking It Down

Slate and others have raised the question why NCHS chose to release two new contraception reports on Valentine’s Day.  The answer is that NCHS always releases its data whenever they’re ready to be published, give or take a day or two depending on the timing of other publications or events.  So, releasing these two reports about contraception on Valentine’s Day may have seemed a bit awkward, but perhaps not as awkward as releasing them on the same day as the State of the Union…