{"id":7523,"date":"2024-11-24T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7523"},"modified":"2024-11-25T15:39:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T20:39:12","slug":"the-story-of-albertas-rural-long-covid-program-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/the-story-of-albertas-rural-long-covid-program-that-never-was\/","title":{"rendered":"The story of Alberta\u2019s rural long COVID program that never was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As better diagnosis and symptom management emerged for people with long COVID, researchers in Alberta set to work creating a program that could remotely connect urban specialists and rural patients. Between development and clinical implementation, the project was shelved.<\/p>\n<p>With the province closing its clinics dedicated to treating people with long COVID, the story of Alberta\u2019s innovative rural outreach program appears destined to remain incomplete.<\/p>\n<p>Long COVID, or post COVID syndrome, refers to patients who are still experiencing symptoms twelve weeks after the initial infection. According to Health Canada, the condition affects about 1 in 9 adults who have had COVID.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As better diagnosis and symptom management emerged for people with long COVID, researchers in Alberta set to work creating a program that could remotely connect urban specialists and rural patients. Between development and clinical implementation, the project was shelved.<\/p>\n<p>With the province closing its clinics dedicated to treating people with long COVID, the story of Alberta\u2019s innovative rural outreach program appears destined to remain incomplete.<\/p>\n<p>Long COVID, or post COVID syndrome, refers to patients who are still experiencing symptoms twelve weeks after the initial infection. According to Health Canada, the condition affects about 1 in 9 adults who have had COVID.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/the-story-of-albertas-rural-long-covid-program-that-never-was\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The story of Alberta\u2019s rural long COVID program that never was<\/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":[315,96,18,11,937,88,14],"class_list":["post-7523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-long-covid","tag-long-covid-clinics","tag-medical-treatments","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523","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=7523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7525,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions\/7525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}