{"id":121860,"date":"2021-01-17T08:38:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T13:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/?p=121860"},"modified":"2021-01-17T13:49:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T18:49:40","slug":"dr-stephanie-silvera-comments-on-lack-of-covid-19-vaccinations-distributed-to-blacks-and-latinos-for-wnyc-public-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/2021\/01\/17\/dr-stephanie-silvera-comments-on-lack-of-covid-19-vaccinations-distributed-to-blacks-and-latinos-for-wnyc-public-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Stephanie Silvera Comments on Lack of COVID-19 Vaccinations Distributed to Blacks and Latinos for WNYC Public Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey has administered more than 310,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. But a very small percentage has gone to the African American and Latino populations. Only 4 percent have been administered to Black people and 5 percent to Latinos, according to\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.state.nj.us\/health\/cd\/topics\/covid2019_dashboard.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">data from the state<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli said Friday a team is working to cut down on those disparities, including a plan to\u00a0use\u00a0mobile vans to\u00a0offer\u00a0vaccinations in certain areas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~silveras\">Dr. Stephanie Silvera<\/a>, Professor in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/public-health\">Public Health Department<\/a>, noted: &#8220;We have this difficulty with even finding out where the vaccines are being given,\u00a0getting your appointment\u00a0but a lot of locations require somebody to have a car or transportation\u00a0to get there and we know lack of transportation is major risk factor for a lot of different health outcomes,&#8221; Silvera said. &#8220;We need to do in terms of outreach to communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/story\/less-1-10-nj-vaccines-are-going-toward-blacks-and-latinos\/\">Listen to the entire interview at WNYC Public Radio<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey has administered more than 310,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. But a very small percentage has gone to the African American and Latino populations. Only 4 percent have been administered to Black people and 5 percent to Latinos, according to\u00a0data from the state. Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli said Friday a team is working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":121861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-23_college-news-and-events","category-214_public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121862,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121860\/revisions\/121862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}