{"id":121242,"date":"2020-09-14T11:05:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T15:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/?p=121242"},"modified":"2020-09-14T11:05:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T15:05:54","slug":"dr-stephanie-silvera-talks-about-preventing-covid-19-spread-as-schools-reopen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/2020\/09\/14\/dr-stephanie-silvera-talks-about-preventing-covid-19-spread-as-schools-reopen\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Stephanie Silvera Talks About Preventing COVID-19 Spread as Schools Reopen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/montclair.edu\/~silveras\">Dr. Stephanie Sivera<\/a>, Professor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/public-health\">Public Health Department<\/a>, talks with <a href=\"http:\/\/njtvonline.org\">NJTVNews<\/a> senior correspondent Briana Vannozzi about preventing the spread of COVID-19 as schools reopen in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, I do anticipate we will probably see a slight increase in cases among children, particularly, we have to separate out those who are under 18, so our K-12 students versus our college-aged students because the risk of showing symptoms is a little bit different in those groups. What we know so far around children, is that about 7% of all COVID cases are seen in people under 18. But what is really interesting is about 90% of childhood cases don&#8217;t show symptoms or are only mildly symptomatic. And I think that&#8217;s where it gets very difficult because those children can potentially be spreading the virus,&#8221; Dr. Silvera said.<\/p>\n<p>She added, &#8220;In terms of how easy will it be spread or how quickly, it&#8217;s really going to depend a lot now on how well people comply with all of\u00a0 the mitigating factors that we have been put into place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.njtvonline.org\/news\/video\/preventing-covid-19-spread-a-bigger-challenge-as-schools-reopen\/\">Watch the full, original interview at NJTVNews.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Stephanie Sivera, Professor in the Public Health Department, talks with NJTVNews senior correspondent Briana Vannozzi about preventing the spread of COVID-19 as schools reopen in New Jersey. &#8220;So, I do anticipate we will probably see a slight increase in cases among children, particularly, we have to separate out those who are under 18, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-23_college-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121242","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=121242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}