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Coronavirus can stir up all sorts of feelings. Like fear, anxiety or stress. A little stress can be helpful. It can be the motivator that keeps us self-isolating or washing our hands. But constant or high levels of stress can negatively affect our mental and physical health. Taking care of our minds is always important, but doing so in the middle of a pandemic can be really tricky. Here are some tips and techniques to help us all get through this. Start your day well It can be tempting to reach for your phone or switch on the news first thing in the morning but starting the day with a simple mindfulness exercise, such as ‘Notice 3 things’, can help you check in with how you’re feeling and connect with your environment. Mindfulness is well known to make people feel calmer and cope better with stress. This quick exercise takes less than a minute.  Before you get out of bed: pause and concentrate on 3 things you can see. For example, your patterned curtains, the blue sky or even just ...

This is SARS CoV-2. It belongs to the family of coronaviruses,  named for crownlike spikes on their surfaces. SARS CoV-2 can cause COVID-19, a contagious viral infection that attacks primarily your throat and lungs. What actually happens in your body when you contract the coronavirus? What exactly causes your body to develop pneumonia? And how would a vaccine work? The coronavirus must infect living cells in order to reproduce. Let's have a closer look. Inside the virus, genetic material contains the information to make more copies of itself. A protein shell provides a hard protective enclosure for the genetic material as the virus travels between the people it infects. An outer envelope allows the virus to infect cells by merging with the cell's outer membrane. Projecting from the envelope are spikes of protein molecules. Both a typical influenza virus and the new coronavirus use their spikes like a key to get inside a cell in your body, where it takes over its internal machin...

Hey guys, this week, Apple silently announced the iPhone SE 2020. but this one particularly piqued my interest because a) it’s a very affordable, quote-unquote, very affordable iPhone at 399 or167 thousand Naira. Which it might be more when it eventually comes to Nigeria and b) I’ve reviewed the iPhone 11 which is a very dope smartphone must admit, that also sort of shocked people that an iPhone could be that low in price which started at $699 or 290,000 Naira. So this video is me just going off of my knowledge of that and let’s see what is Apple really doing here. Also, guys, shout to WesternDigital again, I’ll be giving one more storage device to you guys, when you give this video a thumbs up, comment below which one you want and of course watch till the end for more details. I already announced the first winner ina previous video so this winner will be announced a week from now. So make sure you subscribe to be the first to know when we drop a new video. Without further ado, let’s g...

Good daily habits can make such a big difference to your overall health and your life. In this article, going to share 10daily habits that have changed my life in many different ways. If you'reinterested keep reading. Hello hello. This article is from Ria and She is a holistic nutritionist with a food engineering background. For today's article, we're going to talk about 10 daily habits that have made a really big difference to my life in different areas such as physical health, emotional health, and brain health. Before we dive in I wanted to say a few things so you know the context. The first thing is these daily habits have been the result of gradual habit-forming over the last five years- it's not something that happened overnight. It is difficult to form habits and it does take time. The second thing  - although these habits are daily habits I don't put pressure on myself to do them every day especially when things get too busy or things are too overwhelming....

 Hey guys.this is Siobhan, a 3rd-year medical resident. You've probably heard lots of bits of information about coronavirus. Some of it's true, but some of it is so misleading. So in this video, we're gonna go through a summary sticking with the facts about what you need to know about Covid-19. Corona virus is a whole family of viruses that have little spikes on the surface that look like a crown, which is how it got its name. You've probably heard of other types of corona virus. There was the SARS corona virus and the outbreak was in 2002. There was the MERS corona virus, with an outbreak in 2012. And there are actually a lot of other types of corona virus, but they don't have special names and they just cause the common cold. The virus we're dealing with is called SARS-COV-2 and the disease that it causes is corona virus disease 2019. Or COVID-19 for short. Bats are actually a natural reservoir for many viruses, so the virus can actually replicate inside the b...

Alanna Shaikh:  I've been working in global health for about 20 years, and my specific technical specialty is in health systems and what happens when health systems experience severe shocks. I've also worked in global-health journalism. I've written about global health and biosecurity for newspapers and web outlets, and I published a book a few years back about the major global health threats facing us as a planet. I have supported and led epidemiology efforts that range from evaluatingEbola treatment centers to looking at the transmission of tuberculosis in health facilities and doing avian influenza preparedness. I have a master's degree in International Health. I'm not a physician. I'm not a nurse. My specialty isn't patient care or taking care of individual people. My specialty is looking at populations and health systems - what happens when diseases move on a large level. If we're ranking sources of global-health expertise on a scale of 1 to 10 - 1 ...