{"id":1108725,"date":"2022-03-18T11:38:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T16:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1108725"},"modified":"2022-03-19T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T21:26:12","slug":"roberts-covid-monitoring-continues-as-cases-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1108725","title":{"rendered":"Roberts: COVID monitoring continues as cases drop"},"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; The numbers continue to look much better on the latest NET Health COVID-19 dashboard.  But NET Health&#8217;s George Roberts says officials continue to keep a close eye on BA-2, a newer variant that&#8217;s been gaining some traction. Roberts says BA-2 now makes up an estimated 26 per cent of cases nationwide. So far, he says, it doesn&#8217;t appear to be a serious threat, but that you never know &#8212; and he continues to urge vaccinations.  Overall, Roberts says officials are watching total cases and following information from the CDC and the state of Texas regarding &#8220;the variants that are out there.&#8221; 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; The numbers continue to look much better on the latest NET Health COVID-19 dashboard. But NET Health&#8217;s George Roberts says officials continue to keep a close eye on BA-2, a newer variant that&#8217;s been gaining some traction. Roberts says BA-2 now makes up an estimated 26 per cent of cases nationwide. So far, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1108725\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roberts: COVID monitoring continues as cases drop<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1108729,"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: COVID monitoring continues as cases drop","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108725","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 06:11:35","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: COVID monitoring continues as cases drop","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108725","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=1108725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108727,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108725\/revisions\/1108727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1108729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1108725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1108725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1108725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}