{"id":1061523,"date":"2021-09-28T16:24:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T21:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1061523"},"modified":"2021-09-29T16:24:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T21:24:01","slug":"roberts-covid-19-numbers-encouraging-but-caution-urged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1061523","title":{"rendered":"Roberts: COVID-19 numbers encouraging, but caution urged"},"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; The latest dashboard shows a big drop in new COVID-19 cases in Smith and Gregg Counties.  NET Health&#8217;s George Roberts says that&#8217;s encouraging, but he still has a word of caution.  Roberts says area numbers are still in the &#8220;substantial&#8221; category, with very high volumes of positive cases.  He continues urging everyone to be careful &#8212; and to get vaccinated as soon as possible if you haven&#8217;t already done so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The latest dashboard shows a big drop in new COVID-19 cases in Smith and Gregg Counties. NET Health&#8217;s George Roberts says that&#8217;s encouraging, but he still has a word of caution. Roberts says area numbers are still in the &#8220;substantial&#8221; category, with very high volumes of positive cases. He continues urging everyone to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1061523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roberts: COVID-19 numbers encouraging, but caution urged<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1061526,"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: COVID-19 numbers encouraging, but caution urged","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 15:48:36","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: COVID-19 numbers encouraging, but caution urged","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061523","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=1061523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061524,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061523\/revisions\/1061524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1061526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1061523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1061523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1061523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}