{"id":1089616,"date":"2022-01-14T13:58:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T19:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1089616"},"modified":"2022-01-17T10:55:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T16:55:08","slug":"roberts-still-a-few-weeks-likely-left-in-omicron-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1089616","title":{"rendered":"Roberts: Still &#8220;a few weeks&#8221; likely left in omicron 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; NET Health CEO George Roberts assesses the latest COVID-19 picture in East Texas. He tells KTBB the area is apparently &#8220;right in the middle&#8221; of the omicron surge, which he still expects to continue &#8220;for a few more weeks.&#8221; Though Smith and Gregg Counties saw drops in community spread, Roberts points out that that could turn in the other direction at any time &#8212; and other counties saw increases in spread.  Roberts also notes, &#8220;The numbers that we&#8217;re sharing don&#8217;t include a number of the at-home tests&#8230;that are coming back positive as well.&#8221;  And he continues to strongly urge vaccinations and staying home when you&#8217;re sick. 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; NET Health CEO George Roberts assesses the latest COVID-19 picture in East Texas. He tells KTBB the area is apparently &#8220;right in the middle&#8221; of the omicron surge, which he still expects to continue &#8220;for a few more weeks.&#8221; Though Smith and Gregg Counties saw drops in community spread, Roberts points out that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1089616\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roberts: Still &#8220;a few weeks&#8221; likely left in omicron surge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1089620,"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: Still \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a few weeks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d likely left in omicron surge","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089616","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 17:17:39","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: Still \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a few weeks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d likely left in omicron surge","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089616","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=1089616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089618,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089616\/revisions\/1089618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1089620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1089616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1089616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1089616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}