{"id":4206,"date":"2024-01-05T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2024-01-05T23:47:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T04:47:42","slug":"sydney-doctor-calls-for-higher-public-flu-vaccination-rates-to-ease-er-waits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/sydney-doctor-calls-for-higher-public-flu-vaccination-rates-to-ease-er-waits\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney doctor calls for higher public flu vaccination rates to ease ER waits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency room wait times are up at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital in Sydney, N.S., mostly due to seasonal flu and respiratory illnesses and a resurgence of COVID, according to an emergency department doctor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe emergency department is crazy busy,\u201d said Dr. Margaret Fraser, a family physician who does shifts at the regional ER. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing very long wait times for patients \u2014 12, 14, 18 hours \u2014 and high volumes of patients with respiratory illness, unfortunately.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency room wait times are up at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital in Sydney, N.S., mostly due to seasonal flu and respiratory illnesses and a resurgence of COVID, according to an emergency department doctor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe emergency department is crazy busy,\u201d said Dr. Margaret Fraser, a family physician who does shifts at the regional ER. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing very long wait times for patients \u2014 12, 14, 18 hours \u2014 and high volumes of patients with respiratory illness, unfortunately.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/sydney-doctor-calls-for-higher-public-flu-vaccination-rates-to-ease-er-waits\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sydney doctor calls for higher public flu vaccination rates to ease ER waits<\/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":[96,817,18,799,78,218,14,818,15],"class_list":["post-4206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-cape-breton-regional-hospital","tag-covid-19","tag-emergency-rooms","tag-hospitalizations","tag-nova-scotia","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-sydney","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206","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=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4207,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions\/4207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}