{"id":3722,"date":"2023-12-08T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3722"},"modified":"2023-12-09T01:02:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T06:02:06","slug":"1-in-9-canadian-adults-have-had-long-term-symptoms-from-covid-infection-statcan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/1-in-9-canadian-adults-have-had-long-term-symptoms-from-covid-infection-statcan\/","title":{"rendered":"1 in 9 Canadian adults have had long-term symptoms from COVID infection: StatCan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics Canada says about one in nine Canadian adults have had long-term symptoms from COVID-19 infection.<\/p>\n<p>The report released today says that amounts to 3.5&nbsp;million Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms are defined as long-term if they persist for three months or longer after a COVID-19 infection and they can\u2019t be explained by anything else.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 80&nbsp;per cent of people with long-term symptoms have them for six months or more.<\/p>\n<p>StatCan says more than half of those who ever had long-term symptoms still had them as of June 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Two-thirds of Canadian adults who have tried to get health-care services for their long-term symptoms say they haven\u2019t received enough treatment or support.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-3\">Related information<\/h2>\n<div class=\"research-citation mb-5\">Statistics Canada: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/daily-quotidien\/231208\/dq231208a-eng.htm\" rel=\"noopener\">Experiences of Canadians with long-term symptoms following COVID-19<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Released: 2023-12-08.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics Canada says about one in nine Canadian adults have had long-term symptoms from COVID-19 infection.<\/p>\n<p>The report released today says that amounts to 3.5&nbsp;million Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms are defined as long-term if they persist for three months or longer after a COVID-19 infection and they can\u2019t be explained by anything else.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 80&nbsp;per cent of people with long-term symptoms have them for six months or more.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/1-in-9-canadian-adults-have-had-long-term-symptoms-from-covid-infection-statcan\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1 in 9 Canadian adults have had long-term symptoms from COVID infection: StatCan<\/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":[96,18,11,14,230,427],"class_list":["post-3722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-long-covid","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-statistics","tag-statistics-canada","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722","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=3722"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3731,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions\/3731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}