{"id":9036,"date":"2025-08-16T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9036"},"modified":"2025-08-17T13:41:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T17:41:58","slug":"do-you-have-long-covid-heres-how-to-tell-and-what-we-know-about-the-condition-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/do-you-have-long-covid-heres-how-to-tell-and-what-we-know-about-the-condition-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you have long COVID? Here\u2019s how to tell, and what we know about the condition so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been more than five years since the dawn of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COVID-19<\/a> pandemic, yet innumerable Canadians are still living with the consequences months or even years after their initial infection.<\/p>\n<p>Much remains unknown about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/star-columnists\/long-covid-took-over-my-body-like-hurricane-milton-ravaged-florida\/article_d2b9e356-8ca7-11ef-97a6-fb205f7098de.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">long COVID, or Post COVID Condition<\/a> (PCC), despite the ailment affecting millions of Canadians and leaving thousands out of work. But as research continues to develop, scientists have gleaned some pieces of the puzzle.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what we know so far about what long COVID is, why it happens and how to tell if you have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been more than five years since the dawn of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">COVID-19<\/a> pandemic, yet innumerable Canadians are still living with the consequences months or even years after their initial infection.<\/p>\n<p>Much remains unknown about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/star-columnists\/long-covid-took-over-my-body-like-hurricane-milton-ravaged-florida\/article_d2b9e356-8ca7-11ef-97a6-fb205f7098de.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">long COVID, or Post COVID Condition<\/a> (PCC), despite the ailment affecting millions of Canadians and leaving thousands out of work. But as research continues to develop, scientists have gleaned some pieces of the puzzle.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what we know so far about what long COVID is, why it happens and how to tell if you have it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/do-you-have-long-covid-heres-how-to-tell-and-what-we-know-about-the-condition-so-far\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do you have long COVID? Here\u2019s how to tell, and what we know about the condition so far<\/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":[96,18,11,119,8,14],"class_list":["post-9036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-long-covid","tag-ontario","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036","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=9036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9037,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036\/revisions\/9037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}