{"id":7258,"date":"2024-10-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7258"},"modified":"2024-10-08T11:35:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T15:35:54","slug":"quebec-launches-annual-flu-covid-vaccination-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/quebec-launches-annual-flu-covid-vaccination-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec launches annual flu\/COVID vaccination campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec public health authorities on Monday launched the annual influenza and COVID-19 vaccination campaign, administering the shots first to people in long-term care before making the vaccines available for free to the general population as of Oct.&nbsp;16.<\/p>\n<p>And for the first time this year, medical staff will be immunizing infants up the age of 18&nbsp;months against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a seasonal pathogen that often leads to overcrowded pediatric emergency rooms during the winter. Health Canada has approved a monoclonal antibody therapy, Nirsevimab, which is now being injected into premature infants in Quebec before they leave the hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec public health authorities on Monday launched the annual influenza and COVID-19 vaccination campaign, administering the shots first to people in long-term care before making the vaccines available for free to the general population as of Oct. 16.<\/p>\n<p>And for the first time this year, medical staff will be immunizing infants up the age of 18 months against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a seasonal pathogen that often leads to overcrowded pediatric emergency rooms during the winter. Health Canada has approved a monoclonal antibody therapy, Nirsevimab, which is now being injected into premature infants in Quebec before they leave the hospital.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/quebec-launches-annual-flu-covid-vaccination-campaign\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quebec launches annual flu\/COVID vaccination campaign<\/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":[96,18,77,800,70,80,49,14,15],"class_list":["post-7258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-influenza","tag-nirsevimab","tag-quebec","tag-respiratory-syncytial-virus","tag-rsv","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7258","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=7258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7262,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7258\/revisions\/7262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}