{"id":440563,"date":"2026-09-19T01:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T01:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440563\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T01:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T01:42:09","slug":"covid-19-cases-increased-in-august-september-why-doesnt-metro-healths-dashboard-show-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440563\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 cases increased in August, September. Why doesn&#8217;t Metro Health&#8217;s dashboard show it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio Metropolitan Health District says it updates the dashboard from October to May<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 For the last three years, public health experts have seen COVID-19 cases increase in late summer. This year, the uptick in cases came in late August, around the start of the school year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">But the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District\u2019s respiratory illness dashboard, which shows trends in influenza, RSV and COVID-19, does not reflect those increases because it has not been updated in four months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Metro Health said it does not update its dashboard between June and September because those are the months when, traditionally, respiratory illnesses are low.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cWe can\u2019t think about respiratory illnesses as a winter thing,\u201d Dr. Jason Bowling said, a professor of infectious diseases at UT San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Though it does not update the dashboard available online, Metro Health remains in communication with local doctors and hospitals about issues threatening public health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Read also:<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ilkOIf copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorChristian Riley Dutcher headshot<img alt=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789782129_235_79cbc6d5-ea2c-4f1c-99a8-ad4ac42db9a3.png\"\/><a class=\"sc-bmzYkS fERtCt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/team\/CRH294591CBPTN3KLABQTS231T\/\" title=\"View Christian Riley Dutcher&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Riley Dutcher<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ctDavV cigBRW\">Christian Riley joined KSAT 12 in June 2025. He returned to the Lone Star State after serving as the senior digital producer at the NBC affiliate in mid-Missouri and earned two Missouri Broadcasters Association awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Metropolitan Health District says it updates the dashboard from October to May SAN ANTONIO \u2013 For&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10301,584,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-440563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-covid-19","tag-health","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}