By Abigail O’Leary Covid ‘pandemic babies’ are starting to show ‘fascinating’ biological changes in their development, a new study has found. Children born while the world was in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic, with most countries locked down, have an altered gut microbiome – meaning the system of good and bad bacteria in their gut to help aid digestion and eliminate harmful bacteria is slightly altered in children now entering their toddler and early childhood years. A researchers team from the University College Cork in Ireland found the changes meant the so-called ‘Covid babies’ hav…
