On March 1, 2021, Governor Murphy announced the expansion of the eligibility of New Jersey’s COVID-19 vaccination program. The expansion includes educators, childcare workers, transportation workers, and other frontline essential workers and high-risk groups.<\/p>\n
Dr. Stephanie Silvera<\/a>, Professor in the Public Health department<\/a>, commented on this expansion for WNBC-NY. She stated, “I’m sort of surprised they weren’t included in that initial batch of essential workers.” She added, “they’re at high-risk just due to exposure. the number of people they come in contact with, their inability to stay 6 feet away from each other.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On March 1, 2021, Governor Murphy announced the expansion of the eligibility of New Jersey’s COVID-19 vaccination program. The expansion includes educators, childcare workers, transportation workers, and other frontline essential workers and high-risk groups. Dr. Stephanie Silvera, Professor in the Public Health department, commented on this expansion for WNBC-NY. She stated, “I’m sort of surprised […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":122053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122052","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\/122052","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=122052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123939,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122052\/revisions\/123939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}