{"id":1109824,"date":"2022-03-22T13:21:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T18:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1109824"},"modified":"2022-03-23T13:21:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T18:21:01","slug":"roberts-remains-upbeat-but-cautious-about-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1109824","title":{"rendered":"Roberts remains upbeat but cautious about COVID-19"},"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; With COVID-19 numbers continuing to decline, NET Health&#8217;s George Roberts is generally upbeat.  But he says officials continue to keep a watchful eye on the BA.2 variant. Roberts says according to the latest CDC information, BA.2 now makes up about 35 per cent of covid cases nationwide. And he continues to stress the importance of vaccinations in light of that information &#8212; together with uncertainty about the effect BA.2 and other variants could ultimately have. 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; With COVID-19 numbers continuing to decline, NET Health&#8217;s George Roberts is generally upbeat. But he says officials continue to keep a watchful eye on the BA.2 variant. Roberts says according to the latest CDC information, BA.2 now makes up about 35 per cent of covid cases nationwide. And he continues to stress the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1109824\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roberts remains upbeat but cautious about COVID-19<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1109827,"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 remains upbeat but cautious about COVID-19","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109824","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 04:57:26","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 remains upbeat but cautious about COVID-19","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109824","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=1109824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109825,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109824\/revisions\/1109825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1109827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1109824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1109824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1109824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}