{"id":7818,"date":"2025-01-09T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7818"},"modified":"2025-01-09T16:46:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T21:46:15","slug":"covid-isnt-just-a-bad-flu-and-nbers-need-to-know-that-coon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-isnt-just-a-bad-flu-and-nbers-need-to-know-that-coon\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID isn\u2019t just \u2018a bad flu,\u2019 and NBers need to know that: Coon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Green leader cites huge difference in death toll between viruses<\/h2>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tj.news\/new-brunswick\/covid-isnt-just-a-bad-flu-and-nbers-need-to-know-that-coon\">\n<p lang=\"en\">\u201c(COVID) isn\u2019t just respiratory. We know that it affects other organs \u2013 not just the lungs, but the heart, the brain and other (organs). So there needs to be a much greater focus on prevention, and what does that look like based on what\u2019s been learned about the circumstances and risk factors leading up to those deaths?\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">\u201cRelated to that is there needs to be a greater effort at awareness and outreach to the general population on COVID \u2013 that this is not just the flu. And we know that science continues to progress here. It\u2019s now well understood that the more (times) people get COVID, the greater their chance of long COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n<footer>&#8211;&nbsp;David Coon, leader of the Green Party of New Brunswick, Canada<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3>Green leader cites huge difference in death toll between viruses<\/h3>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tj.news\/new-brunswick\/covid-isnt-just-a-bad-flu-and-nbers-need-to-know-that-coon\">\n<p lang=\"en\">\u201c(COVID) isn\u2019t just respiratory. We know that it affects other organs \u2013 not just the lungs, but the heart, the brain and other (organs). So there needs to be a much greater focus on prevention, and what does that look like based on what\u2019s been learned about the circumstances and risk factors leading up to those deaths?\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">\u201cRelated to that is there needs to be a greater effort at awareness and outreach to the general population on COVID \u2013 that this is not just the flu. And we know that science continues to progress here. It\u2019s now well understood that the more (times) people get COVID, the greater their chance of long COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n<footer>&#8211;&nbsp;David Coon, leader of the Green Party of New Brunswick, Canada<\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-isnt-just-a-bad-flu-and-nbers-need-to-know-that-coon\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID isn\u2019t just \u2018a bad flu,\u2019 and NBers need to know that: Coon<\/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":[96,18,77,11,73,97,14],"class_list":["post-7818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-influenza","tag-long-covid","tag-new-brunswick","tag-pandemic-response","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818","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=7818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7820,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818\/revisions\/7820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}