{"id":124147,"date":"2022-03-25T10:09:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T14:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/?p=124147"},"modified":"2022-03-25T10:09:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T14:09:03","slug":"dr-stephanie-silvera-on-chat-box-with-david-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/2022\/03\/25\/dr-stephanie-silvera-on-chat-box-with-david-cruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Stephanie Silvera on Chat Box with David Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~silveras\">Dr. Stephanie Silvera<\/a>, Professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/public-health\">Public Health Department<\/a>, recently appeared on Chat Box with David Cruz regarding COVID-19 risks in New Jersey and whether or not the state is on the right track.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Silvera stated, &#8220;I think right now the concern we&#8217;re looking at is this new sub-variant of omicron, this BA.2. The big concern is that it is, as far as we know, somewhere between 30-50% more transmissible. That means that people who are susceptible are more likely to get it just because it&#8217;s more contagious&#8230;even more than the omicron variant&#8230;Remember, more transmissible than the delta variant. So it&#8217;s getting more and more transmissible. We&#8217;re balancing that with more people who are vaccinated, more people who&#8217;ve been exposed to omicron, and the spring&#8230;So people are hopefully going to go outside for their BBQs and not gather indoors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full interview:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Video: COVID-19 risks in NJ, new Poll on if NJ is on right track | Chat Box\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ibi5AZn1HAg?feature=oembed\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen style=\"width: 500px; height: 281px; border: 0px solid #000;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Stephanie Silvera, Professor in the Public Health Department, recently appeared on Chat Box with David Cruz regarding COVID-19 risks in New Jersey and whether or not the state is on the right track. Dr. Silvera stated, &#8220;I think right now the concern we&#8217;re looking at is this new sub-variant of omicron, this BA.2. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124148,"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-124147","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\/124147","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=124147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}