{"id":1087252,"date":"2022-01-07T14:26:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T20:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1087252"},"modified":"2022-01-10T10:15:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T16:15:10","slug":"roberts-reiterates-stay-home-when-youre-sick-as-covid-numbers-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1087252","title":{"rendered":"Roberts reiterates: Stay home when you&#8217;re sick as COVID numbers surge"},"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; As COVID-19 numbers continue on the rise again, NET Health&#8217;s George Roberts says an already-familiar way to deal with it has moved to the front of the pack: staying home when you&#8217;re sick.  He tells us if you feel you have COVID-like symptoms such as a scratchy throat, sniffles, or fever, you may in fact have the disease.  Roberts notes, &#8220;We&#8217;re hearing reports from the hospitals now that 40 to 50 per cent of the people that they are testing for COVID right now are testing positive.&#8221; <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Of course, Roberts continues to urge those vaccinations &#8212; first and second shots, along with boosters.  Speaking Friday, Roberts added, &#8220;The commissioner of health in the state of Texas encouraged us yesterday on a call to basically say one of the things that we can really do to get through this time together is to&#8230;get boosted.&#8221; Roberts reminds you that the vaccines remain widely available throughout the area. For more information on COVID-19 in East Texas, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nethealthcovid19.org\/blog\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; As COVID-19 numbers continue on the rise again, NET Health&#8217;s George Roberts says an already-familiar way to deal with it has moved to the front of the pack: staying home when you&#8217;re sick. He tells us if you feel you have COVID-like symptoms such as a scratchy throat, sniffles, or fever, you may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1087252\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roberts reiterates: Stay home when you&#8217;re sick as COVID numbers surge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1087257,"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":"Roberts reiterates: Stay home when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re sick as COVID numbers surge","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 18:53:40","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\/10\/nethealthnortheasttexas-4-175x103.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Roberts reiterates: Stay home when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re sick as COVID numbers surge","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087252","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=1087252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087255,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087252\/revisions\/1087255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1087257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1087252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1087252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1087252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}