{"id":1601,"date":"2023-09-21T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2023-09-21T13:37:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T17:37:21","slug":"up-to-10-per-cent-of-quebec-health-care-workers-affected-with-long-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/up-to-10-per-cent-of-quebec-health-care-workers-affected-with-long-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Up to 10 per cent of Quebec health-care workers affected with long COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between six and 10 per cent of health-care workers in Quebec have suffered from long COVID since the start of the pandemic, preliminary data released on Thursday revealed at the first Canadian Symposium on long COVID, in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>A third of them have experienced symptoms deemed \u201csevere,\u201d and more than half of them have been experiencing symptoms for more than a year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, post-COVID syndrome has a significant effect on health and the ability to work, and there is a large unmet demand for rehabilitation services,\u201d said the study\u2019s author, Dr.&nbsp;Sara Carazo, who is an epidemiologist at the Quebec Institute of Public Health (INSPQ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between six and 10 per cent of health-care workers in Quebec have suffered from long COVID since the start of the pandemic, preliminary data released on Thursday revealed at the first Canadian Symposium on long COVID, in Montreal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/up-to-10-per-cent-of-quebec-health-care-workers-affected-with-long-covid\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Up to 10 per cent of Quebec health-care workers affected with long COVID<\/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":[96,18,389,25,23,11,24,70,8,14],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-healthcare-workers","tag-hospital-acquired-infections","tag-hospitals","tag-long-covid","tag-nosocomial-infections","tag-quebec","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","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=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}