{"id":124379,"date":"2022-05-27T09:22:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T13:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/?p=124379"},"modified":"2022-05-27T09:22:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T13:22:57","slug":"dr-stephanie-silvera-comments-on-vaccine-changes-as-the-virus-mutates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/2022\/05\/27\/dr-stephanie-silvera-comments-on-vaccine-changes-as-the-virus-mutates\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Stephanie Silvera Comments on Vaccine Changes as the Virus Mutates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given the waning immunity, limited mask use and booster uptake, and the dangers of long COVID, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~silveras\">Dr. Stephanie Silvera<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/public-health\">Public Health<\/a> Professor, said tweaking the vaccines to better protect against new viral variants could make sense. The federal government\u2019s expert panel is scheduled to meet on June 28 to discuss this option and, if members decide to proceed with a reformulation, they would identify which mutations drugmakers should target in their revisions to <em>NJ Spotlight News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the evidence is growing that this should, at a minimum, be up for consideration and study,\u201d Dr. Silvera said. While this could create new logistical challenges, she said these reformulations could conceivably be easier to tweak further in response to future mutations, when compared to the existing product.<\/p>\n<span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.njspotlightnews.org\/2022\/05\/nj-health-care-covid-19-reformulating-vaccines-better-protect-against-infection-long-covid-impact-nasal-spray\/\">Read the full article<\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shots prevent deaths, hospital stays and more. Scientists consider changes as virus mutates<\/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":[5,12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124379","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\/124379","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=124379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124379\/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=124379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cchl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}