New York City, which has the most stringent workplace vaccination restrictions in the US for COVID-19, is discontinuing one of the remaining such mandates, announcing that it would no longer demand the vaccinations for municipal personnel like as police officers, firemen, and teachers.
On Monday, Mayor Eric Adams announced that the vaccination mandate that led to the dismissal of hundreds of city employees who refused to get the injections will be lifted on Friday.
Adams, a Democrat, said that “now is the proper moment for this choice” because more than 96% of municipal employees and more than 80% of city citizens had received the first in a series of vaccines.
Dr. Ashwin Vasan, the city’s commissioner of health, stated, “It’s apparent these regulations saved lives and were absolutely required to meet the moment. As the epidemic moves past its emergency stage, we are relieved to be able to make adjustments to the policies that have brought us this far.
One of the final COVID-19 regulations still in effect in New York City was a vaccination requirement for city employees. On November 2022, the city made it voluntary for private sector workers to be vaccinated, and masks became less common in public transportation.
Kyrie Irving, an NBA All-Star point guard who does not believe in the safety of vaccines, missed the most of the Brooklyn Nets’ home games last season due to the city of New York’s private sector mandate.
