{"id":7830,"date":"2025-01-10T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7830"},"modified":"2025-01-11T14:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T19:16:13","slug":"analysis-why-are-b-c-kids-sick-all-the-time-health-experts-explain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/analysis-why-are-b-c-kids-sick-all-the-time-health-experts-explain\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis: Why are B.C. kids sick all the time? Health experts explain"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.surreynowleader.com\/opinion\/analysis-why-are-bc-kids-sick-all-the-time-health-experts-explain-7752521\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Simply put, COVID-19 infections weaken our immune systems. This makes us more prone to reinfection with SARS-CoV-2, infections with other viruses (e.g. RSV), reactivation of dormant viral infections (e.g. shingles, Herpes-Zoster virus), bacterial infections (Group A strep,TB) and even rare fungal infections. To make matters worse, the infections themselves may also be more severe. Being infected with SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses or bacteria at the same time can also make things worse, in adults as well as children.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.surreynowleader.com\/opinion\/analysis-why-are-bc-kids-sick-all-the-time-health-experts-explain-7752521\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Simply put, COVID-19 infections weaken our immune systems. This makes us more prone to reinfection with SARS-CoV-2, infections with other viruses (e.g. RSV), reactivation of dormant viral infections (e.g. shingles, Herpes-Zoster virus), bacterial infections (Group A strep,TB) and even rare fungal infections. To make matters worse, the infections themselves may also be more severe. Being infected with SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses or bacteria at the same time can also make things worse, in adults as well as children.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/analysis-why-are-b-c-kids-sick-all-the-time-health-experts-explain\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Analysis: Why are B.C. kids sick all the time? Health experts explain<\/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":[83,96,18,234,203,624,625,8,80,49,14,971],"class_list":["post-7830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-immune-dysfunction","tag-immune-system","tag-immunity-debt","tag-immunity-theft","tag-research","tag-respiratory-syncytial-virus","tag-rsv","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-shingles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830","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=7830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7832,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830\/revisions\/7832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}