{"id":4854,"date":"2024-03-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4854"},"modified":"2024-03-11T03:45:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T07:45:46","slug":"long-covid-patients-say-worksafebc-is-making-life-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/long-covid-patients-say-worksafebc-is-making-life-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Long COVID Patients Say WorkSafeBC Is Making Life Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maryanne Andrew has been getting sicker and sicker since she caught COVID-19 in January 2022 while working in a Campbell River school.<\/p>\n<p>And instead of helping, she says, WorkSafeBC\u2019s attempts to require her to go back to work have made her symptoms worse.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew is among more than two million Canadians still suffering from long-term COVID symptoms as of last summer, according to a Statistics Canada survey, which also found about half of the patients reported not seeing any improvements in their condition over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryanne Andrew has been getting sicker and sicker since she caught COVID-19 in January 2022 while working in a Campbell River school.<\/p>\n<p>And instead of helping, she says, WorkSafeBC\u2019s attempts to require her to go back to work have made her symptoms worse.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew is among more than two million Canadians still suffering from long-term COVID symptoms as of last summer, according to a Statistics Canada survey, which also found about half of the patients reported not seeing any improvements in their condition over time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/long-covid-patients-say-worksafebc-is-making-life-worse\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Long COVID Patients Say WorkSafeBC Is Making Life Worse<\/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":[83,96,18,391,259,284,11,14,813],"class_list":["post-4854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-first-person-stories","tag-human-rights","tag-labour-rights","tag-long-covid","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-worksafebc","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854","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=4854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4856,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions\/4856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}