{"id":7275,"date":"2024-10-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7275"},"modified":"2024-10-10T00:44:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T04:44:41","slug":"for-kids-with-long-covid-back-to-school-often-means-not-returning-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/for-kids-with-long-covid-back-to-school-often-means-not-returning-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"For kids with long COVID, \u201cback to school\u201d often means not returning at all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2022, Jennifer Robertson\u2019s now 11-year-old son, Fergus, developed long COVID, a condition in which the symptoms of COVID-19 linger for months or even years. Due to his symptoms, he missed nearly six weeks of school after his first infection. He\u2019d be in and out of the classroom for the rest of the school year.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson never knew how her son would feel day to day. After three months of daily fever spikes, red eyes, and chest pains, the family pulled him out of their school to be homeschooled for a year. There was hope when he returned to in-person school last year at a private, and more flexible, school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2022, Jennifer Robertson\u2019s now 11-year-old son, Fergus, developed long COVID, a condition in which the symptoms of COVID-19 linger for months or even years. Due to his symptoms, he missed nearly six weeks of school after his first infection. He\u2019d be in and out of the classroom for the rest of the school year.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson never knew how her son would feel day to day. After three months of daily fever spikes, red eyes, and chest pains, the family pulled him out of their school to be homeschooled for a year. There was hope when he returned to in-person school last year at a private, and more flexible, school.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/for-kids-with-long-covid-back-to-school-often-means-not-returning-at-all\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For kids with long COVID, \u201cback to school\u201d often means not returning at all<\/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":[26,18,391,11,868,14,62,202],"class_list":["post-7275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-children","tag-covid-19","tag-first-person-stories","tag-long-covid","tag-pediatric-long-covid","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-schools","tag-students","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275","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=7275"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7285,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275\/revisions\/7285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}