Reducing the risk of contracting COVID-19 relies heavily on how well we understand how it spreads. Up until now, a lot of focus has been on transmission by getting too close to the coughs and sneezes of an infected person or by touching infected surfaces. But there’s growing evidence indicating that the coronavirus is more likely an airborne illness, similar to other respiratory diseases, where small particles caused by breathing and talking linger in the air traveling from one person to the next. Scientists say the more we understand the spread, the more safely we can reopen. Montclair State University professor and epidemiologist Stephanie Silvera joins Senior Correspondent Briana Vannozzi to explain.
What do we know about how COVID-19 is spread?
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An Emmy award-winning journalist, Briana Vannozzi serves as the anchor for NJ Spotlight News, the newsroom of NJ PBS. She's worked in several capacities since joining the news division in 2012, as interim anchor and senior correspondent after years of general assignment reporting as a multimedia journalist. Vannozzi began her television journalism career by cutting her teeth on New Jersey State House politics for New Jersey Network News, and later as a news radio correspondent at FM News 101.9 covering crime and politics in New York City. Her work has taken her to national presidential nominating conventions, Capitol Hill, up and down the East Coast and every corner of the Garden State. She's interviewed every New Jersey governor dating back to Jon Corzine and moderated numerous political debates and forums. Her work has also earned awards from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists and the Philadelphia Press Association. A Burlington County native, she's honored to be serving and covering her home state and raising her family there.