{"id":8233,"date":"2025-03-15T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8233"},"modified":"2025-03-16T15:57:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T19:57:32","slug":"long-covid-sufferers-converge-outside-the-vancouver-art-gallery-to-protest-for-better-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/long-covid-sufferers-converge-outside-the-vancouver-art-gallery-to-protest-for-better-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Long COVID sufferers converge outside the Vancouver Art Gallery to protest for better support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crowds of people suffering long COVID rallied outside the Vancouver Art Gallery Saturday afternoon to raise awareness of the debilitating effects felt by those still battling the disease.<\/p>\n<p>People had gathered to call on the government to assist with funding for further research into symptoms and treatments, disability support, public awareness, and training for medical staff.<\/p>\n<p>Via placards and speeches, protesters described their own various experiences and asked passers by and others in attendance to send letters to their MLA\u2019s and MP\u2019s, requesting support.<\/p>\n<p>According to Statistics Canada, 3.5&nbsp;million Canadians continue to suffer symptoms five years after the global outbreak of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Rogers, a long COVID sufferer who battled the rain to attend the protest, said has been plagued with \u201cabsolutely disabling fatigue\u201d since she first contracted the virus in 2020. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowds of people suffering long COVID rallied outside the Vancouver Art Gallery Saturday afternoon to raise awareness of the debilitating effects felt by those still battling the disease.<\/p>\n<p>People had gathered to call on the government to assist with funding for further research into symptoms and treatments, disability support, public awareness, and training for medical staff.<\/p>\n<p>Via placards and speeches, protesters described their own various experiences and asked passers by and others in attendance to send letters to their MLA\u2019s and MP\u2019s, requesting support.<\/p>\n<p>According to Statistics Canada, 3.5&nbsp;million Canadians continue to suffer symptoms five years after the global outbreak of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/long-covid-sufferers-converge-outside-the-vancouver-art-gallery-to-protest-for-better-support\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Long COVID sufferers converge outside the Vancouver Art Gallery to protest for better support<\/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":[141,83,96,930,18,960,11,14,121],"class_list":["post-8233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-activism","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canadian-covid-society","tag-covid-19","tag-international-long-covid-awareness-day","tag-long-covid","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-vancouver","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233","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=8233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8235,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233\/revisions\/8235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}