{"id":4834,"date":"2022-11-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4834"},"modified":"2024-04-14T13:01:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T17:01:50","slug":"jewish-general-hospital-opens-long-covid-and-lyme-disease-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/jewish-general-hospital-opens-long-covid-and-lyme-disease-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish General Hospital opens long-COVID and Lyme disease clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CIUSSS West-Central Montreal regional health authority announced the opening of a clinic for patients with persistent symptoms of COVID-19 and Lyme disease at the Jewish General Hospital on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough most of the people who get COVID-19 recover within a few weeks, some \u2014 even those who had mild versions of the disease \u2014 might have symptoms that last a long time afterward,\u201d Dr. Karl Weiss, chief of the Jewish General Hospital\u2019s division of infectious diseases, noted in a statement. \u201cThese symptoms can be disabling, making it difficult to perform daily activities or to return to work or school. They may vary in intensity from day to day, and over time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResearch and knowledge about treating this illness known as long-COVID syndrome is emerging and rapidly evolving. Our goal in establishing the referral centre is to provide patients with leading-edge care, while improving our understanding of the disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quebec announced in May it would open 15 clinics specializing in long COVID and Lyme disease, including five referral centres and 10 satellite clinics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CIUSSS West-Central Montreal regional health authority announced the opening of a clinic for patients with persistent symptoms of COVID-19 and Lyme disease at the Jewish General Hospital on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough most of the people who get COVID-19 recover within a few weeks, some \u2014 even those who had mild versions of the disease \u2014 might have symptoms that last a long time afterward,\u201d Dr. Karl Weiss, chief of the Jewish General Hospital\u2019s division of infectious diseases, noted in a statement. \u201cThese symptoms can be disabling, making it difficult to perform daily activities or to return to work or school. They may vary in intensity from day to day, and over time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResearch and knowledge about treating this illness known as long-COVID syndrome is emerging and rapidly evolving. Our goal in establishing the referral centre is to provide patients with leading-edge care, while improving our understanding of the disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/jewish-general-hospital-opens-long-covid-and-lyme-disease-clinic\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jewish General Hospital opens long-COVID and Lyme disease clinic<\/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":[96,18,374,11,937,88,178,70,14,1059],"class_list":["post-4834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-jewish-general-hospital","tag-long-covid","tag-long-covid-clinics","tag-medical-treatments","tag-montreal","tag-quebec","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-tiohtiake","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834","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=4834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4836,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions\/4836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}