{"id":10089,"date":"2026-10-07T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=10089"},"modified":"2026-10-08T01:08:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:08:36","slug":"flu-and-covid-19-vaccinations-underway-in-b-c-as-respiratory-illness-season-arrives-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/flu-and-covid-19-vaccinations-underway-in-b-c-as-respiratory-illness-season-arrives-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Flu and COVID-19 vaccinations underway in B.C. as respiratory illness season arrives early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>B.C. has launched its annual fall immunization campaign amid an early start to the cold and flu season. <\/p>\n<p>New this year, the province will be offering an enhanced flu shot and an immunization for RSV for seniors. <\/p>\n<p>The B.C. Centre for Disease Control said the early rise in cases is predominantly being driven by this year\u2019s flu strain \u2014 H1N1, or influenza&nbsp;A \u2014 which is known to peak earlier and cause more severe illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.C. has launched its annual fall immunization campaign amid an early start to the cold and flu season. <\/p>\n<p>New this year, the province will be offering an enhanced flu shot and an immunization for RSV for seniors. <\/p>\n<p>The B.C. Centre for Disease Control said the early rise in cases is predominantly being driven by this year\u2019s flu strain \u2014 H1N1, or influenza&nbsp;A \u2014 which is known to peak earlier and cause more severe illness.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/flu-and-covid-19-vaccinations-underway-in-b-c-as-respiratory-illness-season-arrives-early\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flu and COVID-19 vaccinations underway in B.C. as respiratory illness season arrives early<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[83,96,18,77,80,49,14,653,15],"class_list":["post-10089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-influenza","tag-respiratory-syncytial-virus","tag-rsv","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccine-clinics","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10090,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089\/revisions\/10090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}