{"id":124135,"date":"2022-03-18T10:17:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T14:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/?p=124135"},"modified":"2022-03-18T10:17:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T14:17:49","slug":"dr-stephanie-silvera-spoke-to-wbgo-about-the-end-of-governor-murphys-covid-briefings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/2022\/03\/18\/dr-stephanie-silvera-spoke-to-wbgo-about-the-end-of-governor-murphys-covid-briefings\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Stephanie Silvera Spoke to WBGO about the End of Governor Murphy&#8217;s COVID Briefings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclaire.du\/~silveras\">Dr. Stephanie Silvera<\/a>, Professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/public-health\">Public Health Department<\/a>, recently spoke with WBGO about the end of Governor Murphy&#8217;s COVID briefings.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Silvera stated that the case numbers currently indicate that a crisis remains. \u201cWe still have very high levels of cases in some areas,\u201d Dr. Silvera said, adding that the numbers vary among counties. \u201cThere are still high hospitalization rates; we&#8217;re still having nationally over a thousand people a day die of this disease. That is not normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot as many people are home at 1 o&#8217;clock on an average day to watch those briefings,\u201d she said. \u201cSo they end up getting digested by the media and then shared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Governor Murphy has discussed \u201ctransitioning into an endemic\u201d many times recently. Dr. Silvera said the term is being misused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s sort of a little pet peeve of mine because people are now throwing around the term,\u201d she added. \u201cMost people have no idea what that term means.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An endemic means that rates are static, neither rising nor falling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s a baseline level; we expect a certain number of cases,\u201d she said. \u201cThat does not mean safe, it does not mean that it is not widespread, and it certainly doesn&#8217;t mean that it isn&#8217;t deadly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Silvera added that the numbers \u201ccertainly aren\u2019t static.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re still seeing some pretty dramatic surges and then a falling of case rates, where we just came off of omicron with a huge surge and those case rates are now still dropping,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is not endemic yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbgo.org\/news\/2022-03-04\/this-is-more-of-a-political-signal-new-jerseys-last-covid-briefing-is-set\">Read the full story<\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Stephanie Silvera, Professor in the Public Health Department, recently spoke with WBGO about the end of Governor Murphy&#8217;s COVID briefings. Dr. Silvera stated that the case numbers currently indicate that a crisis remains. \u201cWe still have very high levels of cases in some areas,\u201d Dr. Silvera said, adding that the numbers vary among counties. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-23_college-news-and-events","category-284_master-of-public-health-news","category-214_public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}