{"id":124142,"date":"2022-03-21T14:51:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T18:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/?p=124142"},"modified":"2022-03-21T14:51:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T18:51:39","slug":"dr-stephanie-silvera-speaks-about-ba-2-covid-19-to-northjersey-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/2022\/03\/21\/dr-stephanie-silvera-speaks-about-ba-2-covid-19-to-northjersey-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Stephanie Silvera Speaks About BA.2 COVID-19 to NorthJersey.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Studies have shown that BA.2 is &#8220;inherently more transmissible&#8221; than omicron BA.1, according to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s not yet known is if BA.2 causes severe illness the way omicron BA.1 did, which prompted a rapid surge in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths for a month before plummeting just as quickly.<\/p>\n<p>While omicron BA.1 was considered milder than both COVID&#8217;s original strain and the delta variant, more than 2,000 New Jerseyans died during its short peak.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We often don&#8217;t know until it&#8217;s too late,&#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 an infectious disease specialist. &#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:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/news\/coronavirus\/2022\/03\/17\/ba-2-omicron-variant-covid-nj-new-york\/7047173001\/\">Read the full story<\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studies have shown that BA.2 is &#8220;inherently more transmissible&#8221; than omicron BA.1, according to the World Health Organization. What&#8217;s not yet known is if BA.2 causes severe illness the way omicron BA.1 did, which prompted a rapid surge in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths for a month before plummeting just as quickly. While omicron BA.1 was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124142","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\/124142","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=124142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}