{"id":1091767,"date":"2022-01-21T13:30:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T19:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1091767"},"modified":"2022-01-22T16:23:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T22:23:16","slug":"roberts-sees-plateau-in-area-covid-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1091767","title":{"rendered":"Roberts sees &#8220;plateau&#8221; in area COVID numbers"},"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; Substantial spread remains the rule in NET Health area COVID cases, but NET Health CEO George Roberts says better news may lie ahead.  He tells KTBB, &#8220;I think we&#8217;ll probably see increases in our cases in the next week or so &#8212; but then, hopefully, we&#8217;re at the plateau of our&#8230;situation right now.&#8221; As for the huge jump in Smith County&#8217;s community spread and new case numbers, Roberts says he thinks &#8220;at this point,&#8221; that&#8217;s &#8220;probably something we can expect from time to time.&#8221; Roberts cautions that there&#8217;s still a lot to deal with, and he continues his call for vaccinations and staying home when you&#8217;re sick.  He notes that there&#8217;s a lot of sickness in the area &#8212; and it&#8217;s not just COVID, but other &#8220;winter-type illnesses.&#8221; The latest hospital patient number is up to almost 240, the highest since last fall, according to Roberts. 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; Substantial spread remains the rule in NET Health area COVID cases, but NET Health CEO George Roberts says better news may lie ahead. He tells KTBB, &#8220;I think we&#8217;ll probably see increases in our cases in the next week or so &#8212; but then, hopefully, we&#8217;re at the plateau of our&#8230;situation right now.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1091767\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roberts sees &#8220;plateau&#8221; in area COVID numbers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1091771,"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 sees \u00e2\u20ac\u0153plateau\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in area COVID numbers","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091767","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 23:37:09","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 sees \u00e2\u20ac\u0153plateau\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in area COVID numbers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091767","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=1091767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091769,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091767\/revisions\/1091769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1091771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1091767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1091767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1091767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}