{"id":659057,"date":"2026-10-27T23:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T23:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/659057\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T23:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T23:54:12","slug":"top-doctors-weigh-in-as-respiratory-virus-seasons-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/659057\/","title":{"rendered":"Top doctors weigh in as respiratory virus seasons looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Southwestern Ontario and the rest of the province gets set to enter respiratory virus season, public health offices are preparing for the spread of illnesses, including COVID-19 and influenza. Here are some things to know about the risks ahead.<\/p>\n<p>WHICH RESPIRATORY VIRUSES ARE MOST CLOSELY MONITORED?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The respiratory illnesses most closely monitored by the Middlesex-London Health Unit are influenza, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), said Alex Summers, the health unit\u2019s medical officer of health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Summers said there are other \u201ccommon cold respiratory viruses\u201d that will circulate over respiratory illness season, but those are the \u201cbig three\u201d the public health office monitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Southwestern Ontario and the rest of the province gets set to enter respiratory virus season, public health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[296588,10226,290127,163,521,85,46,290126,296586,296587],"class_list":["post-659057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-296588","tag-category-health-care","tag-category-london-news","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-london-free-press","tag-middlesex-london-health-unit","tag-southwestern-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}