{"id":123830,"date":"2022-01-11T16:19:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/?p=123830"},"modified":"2022-01-11T16:19:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:19:51","slug":"test-positive-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/2022\/01\/11\/test-positive-whats-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Stephanie Silvera: If You Test Positive for COVID-19, What&#8217;s Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 it\u2019s helpful for health departments to get information from home COVID-19 tests, to have an idea of how many more positive cases are out in the community. She said some of those individuals will end up in a hospital, so it is good to be able to anticipate how many people may be coming.<\/p>\n<p>However, she also said local public health departments have limited resources to collect data, which in itself is a problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that there has to be a trade-off in understanding the demographics and the true prevalence of the disease in different communities, versus being able to address the really acute pressing needs of hospitalizations.\u201d<\/p>\n<span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/i-tested-positive-for-covid-on-a-home-test-how-do-i-report-it\/\">Read the full story at WHYY<\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Stephanie Silvera, Professor in the Public Health Department, noted that it\u2019s helpful for health departments to get information from home COVID-19 tests, to have an idea of how many more positive cases are out in the community. She said some of those individuals will end up in a hospital, so it is good to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123830","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\/123830","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=123830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}