{"id":123248,"date":"2021-10-06T20:43:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T00:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/?p=123248"},"modified":"2021-10-06T20:43:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T00:43:51","slug":"mu-covid-19-variant-is-in-new-jersey-dr-stephanie-silvera-gives-information-on-the-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/2021\/10\/06\/mu-covid-19-variant-is-in-new-jersey-dr-stephanie-silvera-gives-information-on-the-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Mu COVID-19 Variant is in New Jersey: Dr. Stephanie Silvera Gives Information on the Strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~silveras\">Dr. Stephanie Silvera<\/a>, Professor in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/public-health\">Public Health<\/a> department, remarked on the mu variant of coronavirus for <em>NJ Spotlight News<\/em> with senior correspondent Brenda Flanagan.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Silvera stated, &#8220;It does spread faster than other variants, and it does seem to be causing slightly more severe illness. It&#8217;s particularly concerning among people who are unvaccinated.&#8221; She added, &#8220;the delta variant seems to still spread far more easily.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.njspotlight.com\/video\/mu-variant-is-in-nj-experts-urge-more-tracking-testing\/\">Watch the full interview<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Stephanie Silvera, Professor in the Public Health department, remarked on the mu variant of coronavirus for NJ Spotlight News with senior correspondent Brenda Flanagan. Dr. Silvera stated, &#8220;It does spread faster than other variants, and it does seem to be causing slightly more severe illness. It&#8217;s particularly concerning among people who are unvaccinated.&#8221; She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":123249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123248","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\/123248","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=123248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123250,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123248\/revisions\/123250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/cehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}