{"id":1185511,"date":"2022-12-08T12:21:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T18:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1185511"},"modified":"2022-12-12T10:58:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T16:58:31","slug":"roberts-covid-flu-rsv-pose-triple-threat-during-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1185511","title":{"rendered":"Roberts: COVID, flu, RSV pose triple threat during the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1185512\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/12\/george-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>TYLER &#8212; Respiratory illnesses in East Texas are alive and well, says NET Health CEO George Roberts. It&#8217;s being called the &#8220;triple threat&#8221; or &#8220;triple-demic,&#8221; with COVID, RSV, and the flu all making their mark &#8212; though Roberts says RSV does appear to have peaked. In any event, there&#8217;s a lot you can do to fight back. Roberts urges flu shots, staying home when you&#8217;re sick, washing your hands, and covering your coughs and sneezes. He says COVID cases don&#8217;t appear as severe as in earlier days, but the disease is still not to be taken lightly. Roberts notes that all that is especially important during the holidays, when you&#8217;re likely to start getting around a lot of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Respiratory illnesses in East Texas are alive and well, says NET Health CEO George Roberts. It&#8217;s being called the &#8220;triple threat&#8221; or &#8220;triple-demic,&#8221; with COVID, RSV, and the flu all making their mark &#8212; though Roberts says RSV does appear to have peaked. In any event, there&#8217;s a lot you can do to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1185511\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roberts: COVID, flu, RSV pose triple threat during the holidays<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1185536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/12\/george-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Roberts: COVID, flu, RSV pose triple threat during the holidays","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 03:37:54","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\/2022\/12\/george-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Roberts: COVID, flu, RSV pose triple threat during the holidays","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185511","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=1185511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186015,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185511\/revisions\/1186015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1185536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1185511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1185511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1185511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}