{"id":10536,"date":"2026-10-31T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=10536"},"modified":"2026-11-04T20:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T01:51:20","slug":"patients-worry-about-impact-of-funding-changes-on-long-covid-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/patients-worry-about-impact-of-funding-changes-on-long-covid-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients worry about impact of funding changes on long COVID clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The summer before she got COVID-19, Karen Price spent 10&nbsp;days backpacking on Mount Edziza in northern B.C.<\/p>\n<p>The ecologist and forest policy worker from Salt Spring Island spent most of her time outdoors before contracting the disease in September of 2022, leaving her bed-bound for months.<\/p>\n<p>Price tested positive for 16&nbsp;days and spent the next six months in bed, struggling to breathe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summer before she got COVID-19, Karen Price spent 10&nbsp;days backpacking on Mount Edziza in northern B.C.<\/p>\n<p>The ecologist and forest policy worker from Salt Spring Island spent most of her time outdoors before contracting the disease in September of 2022, leaving her bed-bound for months.<\/p>\n<p>Price tested positive for 16&nbsp;days and spent the next six months in bed, struggling to breathe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt that point, GPs didn\u2019t really know about long COVID,\u201d she said, adding that she ended up doing much of the research about the illness and its \u00adtreatment options on her own.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, she was referred to the B.C. Centre for Long COVID, ME\/CFS &amp; Fibromyalgia, based on Bowen Island.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/patients-worry-about-impact-of-funding-changes-on-long-covid-clinic\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Patients worry about impact of funding changes on long COVID clinic<\/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":[1353,83,96,18,391,11,1247,1016,14],"class_list":["post-10536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bc-centre-for-long-covid-me-cfs-fibromyalgia","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-first-person-stories","tag-long-covid","tag-me-cfs","tag-myalgic-encephalomyelitis","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536","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=10536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10537,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536\/revisions\/10537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}