{"id":4778,"date":"2024-03-06T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4778"},"modified":"2024-03-07T00:39:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T05:39:40","slug":"new-canadian-covid-society-aims-to-address-long-term-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/new-canadian-covid-society-aims-to-address-long-term-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"New Canadian Covid Society aims to address long-term effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A national non-profit group called the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/covidsociety.ca\/\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian Covid Society<\/a> launched on Wednesday, with co-founders saying the organization is needed as public health agencies have pulled back on COVID-19 prevention measures and awareness campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel in some ways we\u2019re filling a gap where public health has left open,\u201d Dr.&nbsp;Joe Vipond, one of the society\u2019s five co-founders, said at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>In his home province of Alberta, \u201cthere\u2019s basically no mention of COVID. There\u2019s no mention of long COVID. It\u2019s really fallen off the radar for a lot of public health at this point,\u201d said Vipond, who is an emergency physician in Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the acute phase of the pandemic has ended, the virus continues to cause significant chronic illness,\u201d the Canadian Covid Society\u2019s website says.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death across Canada in 2022, behind heart disease and cancer, it says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A national non-profit group called the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/covidsociety.ca\/\" lang=\"en\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian Covid Society<\/a> launched on Wednesday, with co-founders saying the organization is needed as public health agencies have pulled back on COVID-19 prevention measures and awareness campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel in some ways we\u2019re filling a gap where public health has left open,\u201d Dr.&nbsp;Joe Vipond, one of the society\u2019s five co-founders, said at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>In his home province of Alberta, \u201cthere\u2019s basically no mention of COVID. There\u2019s no mention of long COVID. It\u2019s really fallen off the radar for a lot of public health at this point,\u201d said Vipond, who is an emergency physician in Calgary.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/new-canadian-covid-society-aims-to-address-long-term-effects\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Canadian Covid Society aims to address long-term effects<\/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":[141,929,96,930,18,14],"class_list":["post-4778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-activism","tag-advocacy","tag-canada","tag-canadian-covid-society","tag-covid-19","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778","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=4778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4781,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions\/4781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}