{"id":1060461,"date":"2021-09-24T13:49:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T18:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1060461"},"modified":"2021-09-25T16:11:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T21:11:51","slug":"roberts-community-spread-rates-down-but-still-substantial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1060461","title":{"rendered":"Roberts: Community spread rates down, but still substantial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/nethealthnortheasttexas-2-175x103.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"103\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1059211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/nethealthnortheasttexas-2-175x103.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/nethealthnortheasttexas-2.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; More mixed news on COVID-19 in East Texas.  A number of figures are up, but NET Health&#8217;s George Roberts says it appears the total number of positive cases is going down on a daily basis.  He singles out statistics for Smith County, where the spread rate went down from about 130 per day on a seven-day basis a couple of weeks ago to 86.17 on Thursday. The trend is similar in Gregg County.  Still, Roberts points out that the area remains in a state of substantial spread &#8212; and he continues to urge caution and vaccinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; More mixed news on COVID-19 in East Texas. A number of figures are up, but NET Health&#8217;s George Roberts says it appears the total number of positive cases is going down on a daily basis. He singles out statistics for Smith County, where the spread rate went down from about 130 per day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1060461\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roberts: Community spread rates down, but still substantial<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1060465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/nethealthnortheasttexas-2-175x103.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Roberts: Community spread rates down, but still substantial","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 18:49:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/nethealthnortheasttexas-2-175x103.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Roberts: Community spread rates down, but still substantial","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1060461"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061522,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060461\/revisions\/1061522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1060465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1060461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1060461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1060461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}