{"id":402046,"date":"2026-01-11T06:41:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T06:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/402046\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T06:41:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T06:41:33","slug":"why-does-this-years-flu-season-feel-different-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/402046\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does this year&#8217;s flu season feel different?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It comes every year \u2013 but what\u2019s to blame for the severity of this year\u2019s influenza season?<\/p>\n<p>Several strains are circulating across Canada, with health-care professionals scrambling to treat one of the leading causes of death in this country. And with the U.S.\u2019s upcoming withdrawal from the World Health Organization later this month, virus and vaccine-related research will soon become scarce for the countries who depend on the data \u2013 including Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Host Nima Rajan speaks to Dr. Joss Reimer, former president of the Canadian Medical Association and former chief medical officer for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. The two discuss how Canada\u2019s health-care system needs to diversify its science research partners, and what Canadians can do in the short-term to help protect themselves and others.<\/p>\n<p>You can subscribe to The Big Story podcast on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/the-big-story\/id1399721065\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>Spotify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It comes every year \u2013 but what\u2019s to blame for the severity of this year\u2019s influenza season? Several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-402046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}