{"id":1106571,"date":"2022-03-11T13:48:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T19:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1106571"},"modified":"2022-03-14T11:12:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T16:12:13","slug":"roberts-comments-on-latest-area-covid-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1106571","title":{"rendered":"Roberts comments on latest area COVID figures"},"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&#8217;s George Roberts remains pleased with COVID-19 trends in his survey area.  He attributes recent high spread numbers in Van Zandt County to an &#8220;influx of data,&#8221; with figures dating to January &#8212; and says he expects that issue to be resolved soon.  &#8220;Overall, things are&#8230;moving in a positive direction,&#8221; says Roberts.  He notes that the hospital patient number is now down to 78 from the 87 reported Monday.  But one thing hasn&#8217;t changed: Roberts still strongly encourages vaccinations, pointing to the continued wide availability of the shots.  Roberts says the omicron BA-2 variant now makes up about 11.6 per cent of cases nationwide and some seven per cent in Texas &#8212; and isn&#8217;t creating any cause for alarm at this point, though officials continue to monitor it. 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&#8217;s George Roberts remains pleased with COVID-19 trends in his survey area. He attributes recent high spread numbers in Van Zandt County to an &#8220;influx of data,&#8221; with figures dating to January &#8212; and says he expects that issue to be resolved soon. &#8220;Overall, things are&#8230;moving in a positive direction,&#8221; says Roberts. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1106571\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roberts comments on latest area COVID figures<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1106583,"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 comments on latest area COVID figures","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106571","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 07:17:58","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 comments on latest area COVID figures","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106571","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=1106571"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106589,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106571\/revisions\/1106589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1106583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1106571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1106571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1106571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}