{"id":124161,"date":"2022-03-29T14:53:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T18:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/?p=124161"},"modified":"2022-03-29T14:53:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T18:53:47","slug":"dr-stephanie-silvera-agrees-vaccines-are-still-effective-against-the-highly-contagious-ba-2-sub-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/2022\/03\/29\/dr-stephanie-silvera-agrees-vaccines-are-still-effective-against-the-highly-contagious-ba-2-sub-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Stephanie Silvera Agrees: Vaccines are still effective against the highly contagious BA.2 sub-variant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci warned of a rising highly contagious COVID omicron variant called BA.2, according to\u00a0<em>ABC&#8217;s This Week<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does have increased transmission capability,\u201d Fauci said. But all is not lost. The variant still responds to vaccines. &#8220;However, when you look at the cases, they do not appear to be any more severe and they do not appear to evade immune responses either from vaccines or prior infections,&#8221; Fauci added.<\/p>\n<p>What still remains unknown is if BA.2 causes as severe symptoms as did omicron BA.1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We often don&#8217;t know until it&#8217;s too late,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~silveras\">Dr. Stephanie Silvera<\/a>, infectious disease specialist, and Professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/public-health\">Public Health Department<\/a> told USA Today. &#8220;That&#8217;s been the problem with managing these surges. Deaths are one of the last impacts we see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/vaccines-ba2-sub-variant\">Read the full story<\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci warned of a rising highly contagious COVID omicron variant called BA.2, according to\u00a0ABC&#8217;s This Week. \u201cIt does have increased transmission capability,\u201d Fauci said. But all is not lost. The variant still responds to vaccines. &#8220;However, when you look at the cases, they do not appear to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124162,"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-124161","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\/124161","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=124161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}