{"id":1068114,"date":"2021-10-25T14:59:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T19:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1068114"},"modified":"2021-10-26T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T19:59:00","slug":"health-leaders-hold-news-conference-on-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1068114","title":{"rendered":"Health leaders hold news conference on COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/10\/nethealthnortheasttexas-4-175x103.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"103\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1066130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/10\/nethealthnortheasttexas-4-175x103.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/10\/nethealthnortheasttexas-4.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; Local health leaders held a news conference Monday in Tyler on COVID-19, giving information about booster eligibility and other matters.  NET Health&#8217;s George Roberts repeated a familiar call &#8212; and reiterated a telling number regarding hospital patients.  Roberts continues to urge initial vaccinations &#8212; pointing out that as before, over 90 per cent of COVID-19 patients in local hospitals have not been vaccinated.  On the upside, Roberts said hospital patient numbers in the area are continuing do decline, falling to 116 from the 150 range last week.  Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2021\/p1021-covid-booster.html\">here<\/a> for more information on booster shots, and check the &#8220;Coronavirus update&#8221; story on this website for additional information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Local health leaders held a news conference Monday in Tyler on COVID-19, giving information about booster eligibility and other matters. NET Health&#8217;s George Roberts repeated a familiar call &#8212; and reiterated a telling number regarding hospital patients. Roberts continues to urge initial vaccinations &#8212; pointing out that as before, over 90 per cent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1068114\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Health leaders hold news conference on COVID-19<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1068121,"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-4-175x103.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Health leaders hold news conference on COVID-19","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068114","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 09:11:31","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-4-175x103.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Health leaders hold news conference on COVID-19","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068114","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=1068114"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068144,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068114\/revisions\/1068144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1068121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}