{"id":123373,"date":"2021-10-21T10:51:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T14:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/?p=123373"},"modified":"2021-10-21T10:51:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T14:51:02","slug":"dr-stephanie-silvera-advises-people-to-be-cautious-in-colder-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/2021\/10\/21\/dr-stephanie-silvera-advises-people-to-be-cautious-in-colder-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Stephanie Silvera Advises People to be Cautious in Colder Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts like epidemiologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~silveras\">Dr. Stephanie Silvera<\/a>, Professor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/public-health\">Public Health Department<\/a>, are advising people to be cautious as we head into the colder months when indoor activities bring a higher risk \u201cnot just for COVID, but also for flu, and so we need to encourage people to get both their COVID vaccine as well as their flu vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Silvera noted, &#8220;The good news is, while we saw an increase in the number of cases towards the end of the summer, July and August, we are actually seeing a decrease in the number of new cases each day, which is very different than what we saw last year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thirteen.org\/programs\/nj-spotlight-news\/fall-surge-1634583322\/\">Watch the full news story<\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts like epidemiologist Dr. Stephanie Silvera, Professor in the Public Health Department, are advising people to be cautious as we head into the colder months when indoor activities bring a higher risk \u201cnot just for COVID, but also for flu, and so we need to encourage people to get both their COVID vaccine as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123374,"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-123373","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\/123373","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=123373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}