{"id":10551,"date":"2026-11-06T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=10551"},"modified":"2026-11-07T18:56:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T23:56:56","slug":"b-c-program-for-kids-with-long-covid-scales-back-services-after-changes-to-msp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/b-c-program-for-kids-with-long-covid-scales-back-services-after-changes-to-msp\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. program for kids with long COVID scales back services after changes to MSP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For 14-year-old Geo Roy, the success of a day can be measured by whether they make it out of bed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today I had a shower, which I haven&#8217;t done in three days,&#8221; they said in an interview from their home on Protection Island near Nanaimo, B.C.<\/p>\n<p>Since contracting a viral illness two years ago, which they suspect was COVID-19, the previously healthy teenager has been diagnosed with multiple chronic illnesses, including myalgic encephalomyelitis, commonly known as chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia.<\/p>\n<p>They are one of about 80 pediatric patients currently receiving treatment at the B.C. Centre for Long COVID, ME\/CFS, &amp; Fibromyalgia (BC-CLMF), a virtual clinic providing ongoing care to more than 8,500 people across the province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 14-year-old Geo Roy, the success of a day can be measured by whether they make it out of bed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today I had a shower, which I haven&#8217;t done in three days,&#8221; they said in an interview from their home on Protection Island near Nanaimo, B.C.<\/p>\n<p>Since contracting a viral illness two years ago, which they suspect was COVID-19, the previously healthy teenager has been diagnosed with multiple chronic illnesses, including myalgic encephalomyelitis, commonly known as chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/b-c-program-for-kids-with-long-covid-scales-back-services-after-changes-to-msp\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">B.C. program for kids with long COVID scales back services after changes to MSP<\/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":[1353,83,96,18,391,11,1247,1016,868,14],"class_list":["post-10551","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-pediatric-long-covid","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551","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=10551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10552,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551\/revisions\/10552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}