{"id":124261,"date":"2022-04-25T10:08:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T14:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/?p=124261"},"modified":"2022-04-25T10:08:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T14:08:13","slug":"dr-stephanie-silvera-comments-on-omicron-subvariants-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/2022\/04\/25\/dr-stephanie-silvera-comments-on-omicron-subvariants-in-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Stephanie Silvera Comments on Omicron Subvariants in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest omicron subvariants have been found in parts of New York. And they&#8217;re probably spreading in New Jersey too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it&#8217;s in New York, it&#8217;s in New Jersey. It&#8217;s just a matter of how much,&#8221; said <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>, and infectious disease expert.<\/p>\n<p>The important data to monitor are hospitalizations and intensive care patients, not infections, as the majority of New Jersey residents have been vaccinated to some degree.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there&#8217;s a little bit of crossing fingers,&#8221; Dr. Silvera said. &#8220;I do think that we&#8217;re gonna see an increase in cases. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;ll be a surge like we saw in January or December, but there will be an uptick in cases. And as numbers go up in terms of cases, there will be a slight increase in hospitalizations and death. I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re gonna see a dramatic increase in hospitalizations and deaths.&#8221;<\/p>\n<span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/coronavirus\/2022\/04\/new-omicron-subvariants-are-likely-here-if-its-in-new-york-its-in-new-jersey-expert-says.html\">Read the full story at NJ.com<\/a><\/span>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest omicron subvariants have been found in parts of New York. And they&#8217;re probably spreading in New Jersey too. &#8220;If it&#8217;s in New York, it&#8217;s in New Jersey. It&#8217;s just a matter of how much,&#8221; said Dr. Stephanie Silvera, Professor in the Public Health Department, and infectious disease expert. The important data to monitor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124262,"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-124261","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\/124261","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=124261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}