{"id":616975,"date":"2026-04-20T17:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/616975\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:39:08","slug":"new-data-shows-yukon-tops-canada-in-hospital-stays-linked-to-vaccine-preventable-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/616975\/","title":{"rendered":"New data shows Yukon tops Canada in hospital stays linked to vaccine-preventable illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whitehorse, YT \u2014 Yukon has the highest rate in Canada of hospitalizations for vaccine-preventable respiratory illnesses.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"122\" data-end=\"320\">New <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cihi.ca\/en\/priority-indicators-for-public-health-systems-in-canada\/interconnection-with-health-care-systems\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">data<\/a> from the Canadian Institute for Health Information says there were about 57,700 such hospitalizations nationwide in 2024, or 142 per 100,000 people. COVID-19 was the main driver, followed by flu and RSV.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"322\" data-end=\"422\">Yukon\u2019s rate was 235 per 100,000. Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan had the next highest rates.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"424\" data-end=\"536\">Older adults made up nearly half of hospitalizations, while children under five accounted for about one in five.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"538\" data-end=\"681\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Health officials say vaccines can help prevent severe illness and ease pressure on hospitals, though access and uptake vary across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whitehorse, YT \u2014 Yukon has the highest rate in Canada of hospitalizations for vaccine-preventable respiratory illnesses. New data&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,140797,140796,84,884,44,1893,39331,140798,140806,140807,140805,140800,140799,140803,140804,140801,140802],"class_list":["post-616975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ckrw","tag-ckrw-the-rush","tag-health","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-radio-station","tag-the-rush","tag-whitehorse-local","tag-whitehorse-local-news","tag-whitehorse-news","tag-whitehorse-radio","tag-whitehorse-radio-station","tag-yukon-local","tag-yukon-local-news","tag-yukon-radio","tag-yukon-radio-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616975","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=616975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}