{"id":4730,"date":"2024-03-03T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4730"},"modified":"2024-03-03T23:31:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T04:31:02","slug":"nova-scotians-with-long-term-covid-symptoms-face-disability-claim-hurdles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/nova-scotians-with-long-term-covid-symptoms-face-disability-claim-hurdles\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotians with long-term COVID symptoms face disability claim hurdles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two months after contracting COVID-19 and recovering, Beth Wood noticed that she was having trouble concentrating, getting winded easily and feeling unusually tired.<\/p>\n<p>Like three and a half million other Canadians, according to Statistics Canada, Halifax\u2019s Wood has long-term COVID symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Wood has worked as a community social worker for four decades.<\/p>\n<p>She told CBC Radio\u2019s <i>Information Morning Nova Scotia<\/i>, her employer has been helping her try to get back up to speed at work. But it hasn\u2019t been successful and she is now considering taking long-term disability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months after contracting COVID-19 and recovering, Beth Wood noticed that she was having trouble concentrating, getting winded easily and feeling unusually tired.<\/p>\n<p>Like three and a half million other Canadians, according to Statistics Canada, Halifax\u2019s Wood has long-term COVID symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Wood has worked as a community social worker for four decades.<\/p>\n<p>She told CBC Radio\u2019s <i>Information Morning Nova Scotia<\/i>, her employer has been helping her try to get back up to speed at work. But it hasn\u2019t been successful and she is now considering taking long-term disability.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/nova-scotians-with-long-term-covid-symptoms-face-disability-claim-hurdles\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nova Scotians with long-term COVID symptoms face disability claim hurdles<\/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":[96,18,391,11,218,14],"class_list":["post-4730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-first-person-stories","tag-long-covid","tag-nova-scotia","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730","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=4730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4732,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions\/4732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}