{"id":1066807,"date":"2021-10-19T12:37:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T17:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1066807"},"modified":"2021-10-20T12:37:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T17:37:07","slug":"roberts-covid-19-numbers-encouraging-but-vigilance-advised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1066807","title":{"rendered":"Roberts: COVID-19 numbers encouraging, but vigilance advised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/10\/nethealthnortheasttexas-5-175x103.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"103\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1066808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/10\/nethealthnortheasttexas-5-175x103.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/10\/nethealthnortheasttexas-5.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; COVID-19 new case numbers, community spread levels, and hospital patient figures are plummeting in East Texas &#8212; but NET Health&#8217;s George Roberts advises keeping a watchful eye on the situation.  He tells KTBB, &#8220;We see this as a very positive trend, but as we&#8217;ve noted during this entire pandemic&#8230;the number of positive cases can go up and down&#8230;really almost at a moment&#8217;s notice.&#8221;  He continues that everyone should make sure to watch for the variants.  All in all, Roberts advises staying vigilant, adding that that&#8217;s what he and his NET Health colleagues are doing. He also continues to encourage vaccinations &#8212; additionally drawing attention to flu shots that are now available around the region.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; COVID-19 new case numbers, community spread levels, and hospital patient figures are plummeting in East Texas &#8212; but NET Health&#8217;s George Roberts advises keeping a watchful eye on the situation. He tells KTBB, &#8220;We see this as a very positive trend, but as we&#8217;ve noted during this entire pandemic&#8230;the number of positive cases &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1066807\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roberts: COVID-19 numbers encouraging, but vigilance advised<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1066812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/10\/nethealthnortheasttexas-5-175x103.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Roberts: COVID-19 numbers encouraging, but vigilance advised","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066807","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 10:45:13","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\/10\/nethealthnortheasttexas-5-175x103.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Roberts: COVID-19 numbers encouraging, but vigilance advised","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066807","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=1066807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066810,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066807\/revisions\/1066810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1066812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}