{"id":1411,"date":"2023-09-12T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2023-09-13T01:52:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T05:52:40","slug":"a-spike-in-n-b-heart-and-stroke-deaths-in-2021-cited-as-covids-handiwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/a-spike-in-n-b-heart-and-stroke-deaths-in-2021-cited-as-covids-handiwork\/","title":{"rendered":"A spike in N.B. heart and stroke deaths in 2021 cited as COVID\u2019s handiwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New figures show there was a surge in deaths from heart failure, lung disease and strokes in New Brunswick in 2021, as deaths from COVID-19 were also multiplying.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important evidence the virus has been killing provincial residents in multiple ways, according to infectious disease epidemiologist and University of Toronto professor Colin Furness, although New Brunswick health officials still are reluctant to endorse that view.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCOVID causes vascular damage, and there\u2019s a lot of vascular death,\u201d Furness said in an interview about the new information on what killed so many New Brunswick residents in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New figures show there was a surge in deaths from heart failure, lung disease and strokes in New Brunswick in 2021, as deaths from COVID-19 were also multiplying.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/a-spike-in-n-b-heart-and-stroke-deaths-in-2021-cited-as-covids-handiwork\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A spike in N.B. heart and stroke deaths in 2021 cited as COVID\u2019s handiwork<\/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":[96,72,18,150,98,71,36,211,73,14,40],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-cardiovascular-disease","tag-covid-19","tag-deaths","tag-excess-deaths","tag-heart-attacks","tag-heart-disease","tag-heart-failure","tag-new-brunswick","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-strokes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","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=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}