{"id":9492,"date":"2025-12-04T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9492"},"modified":"2025-12-06T21:33:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T02:33:44","slug":"childrens-hospitals-in-canada-face-flood-of-flu-visits-as-doctors-urge-families-to-get-vaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/childrens-hospitals-in-canada-face-flood-of-flu-visits-as-doctors-urge-families-to-get-vaccinated\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s hospitals in Canada face flood of flu visits as doctors urge families to get vaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An early start to Canada\u2019s flu season is hitting children hard, sending a flood of young patients into multiple pediatric hospitals as medical teams warn that emergency visits and admissions could keep climbing in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n<p>At CHEO, eastern Ontario\u2019s children\u2019s hospital in Ottawa, eight times more children tested positive for influenza in November compared with the same month in 2024, while double the number of children needed to be hospitalized. Most of those children hadn\u2019t had a seasonal flu vaccine, according to CHEO\u2019s emergency department team.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital saw \u201cunprecedented\u201d numbers on Monday, with close to 300 young patients coming through the emergency department in a single day, marking a roughly 20 per cent increase from last year, CHEO\u2019s vice-president of acute care services, Karen Macauley, told CBC News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An early start to Canada\u2019s flu season is hitting children hard, sending a flood of young patients into multiple pediatric hospitals as medical teams warn that emergency visits and admissions could keep climbing in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n<p>At CHEO, eastern Ontario\u2019s children\u2019s hospital in Ottawa, eight times more children tested positive for influenza in November compared with the same month in 2024, while double the number of children needed to be hospitalized. Most of those children hadn\u2019t had a seasonal flu vaccine, according to CHEO\u2019s emergency department team.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/childrens-hospitals-in-canada-face-flood-of-flu-visits-as-doctors-urge-families-to-get-vaccinated\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Children\u2019s hospitals in Canada face flood of flu visits as doctors urge families to get vaccinated<\/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":[96,23,77,15],"class_list":["post-9492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-hospitals","tag-influenza","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492","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=9492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9495,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492\/revisions\/9495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}