{"id":124219,"date":"2022-04-13T11:08:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T15:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/?p=124219"},"modified":"2022-04-13T11:08:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T15:08:36","slug":"dr-stephanie-silvera-comments-on-need-of-2nd-covid-booster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/2022\/04\/13\/dr-stephanie-silvera-comments-on-need-of-2nd-covid-booster\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Stephanie Silvera Comments on Need of 2nd COVID Booster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who should get a second booster? What are experts advising?<\/p>\n<p>Experts have been closely monitoring data coming out of Israel, which was proactive in giving boosters once residents received their two primary series vaccination doses.<\/p>\n<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>, noted that Israel&#8217;s data shows that \u201cantibody levels start to wane. And so having a second booster increases those antibody levels back to essentially, or close to, where they were.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cThe other part of this that\u2019s important is that people who had the booster during the omicron (surge) \u2014 that third dose during omicron \u2014 were much less likely to die if they were infected. So right now if we\u2019re looking at a more vulnerable group \u2014 people who are 50 and older \u2014 making sure that their antibody levels stay higher or high enough to protect them against severe illness is really the direction that we\u2019re trying to take.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"prpl-button\"><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/coronavirus\/2022\/03\/do-you-need-a-2nd-covid-booster-well-it-depends-nj-experts-say.html\">Read the full, original story at NJ.com<\/a>[\/button<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who should get a second booster? What are experts advising? Experts have been closely monitoring data coming out of Israel, which was proactive in giving boosters once residents received their two primary series vaccination doses. Dr. Stephanie Silvera, Professor in the Public Health Department, noted that Israel&#8217;s data shows that \u201cantibody levels start to wane. [&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-124219","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\/124219","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=124219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124219\/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=124219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}