Tag: pandemic

TWIW 210: Lockdown and gut health

This Week In Wellness research published in the journal Scientific Reports showed that infants who spent most of their first year of life during the pandemic have fewer types of bacteria in their gut than infants born prior to the pandemic. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230831/Pandemic-may-have-altered-gut-microbiome-of-infants-study-finds.aspx https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-40102-y

TWIW 57: Is Sweden the Covid19 answer?

This Week In Wellness Sweden could be the new model that countries around the world seek to model as their Coronavirus infection rates and deaths plummet despite not imposing the strict lock-downs seen in other parts of the world. Sweden has not closed bars, cafes, restaurants, playgrounds or schools and gatherings of up to 50… Continue reading TWIW 57: Is Sweden the Covid19 answer?

TWIW 55: How to track a pandemic

This Week In Wellness whilst the media is reporting the seemingly exponential growth of Coronavirus worldwide some are suggesting that the spread of the disease may be plotting a different path. It is common in the media to show linear graphs of the Coronavirus that show seemingly exponential growth and this growth has been extrapolated… Continue reading TWIW 55: How to track a pandemic

WWR 166: Coronavirus COVID-19

WE’RE BACK! After the longest hiatus we’ve had from recording we’re back behind the mic and we missed you all terribly. Unfortunately we’ve come back to an almost different, apocalyptic type world with the news that Coronavirus COVID-19 has been classified as a pandemic by the, World Health Organisation, and the fear and panic around… Continue reading WWR 166: Coronavirus COVID-19

TWIW 53: Preventing Coronavirus

This Week In Wellness the World Health Organisation WHO has officially declared the Coronavirus COVID-19 a pandemic as action is taken all over the world to halt it’s spread including America shutting its borders to the EU, the NBA cancelling the rest of its basketball season and the Australian Government advising against “non-essential” gatherings of… Continue reading TWIW 53: Preventing Coronavirus