"New York City holds more business and political cards than most cities," Gronvall notes. But they might be less effective implementing such rules.
Gigi Gronvall, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Other cities with large business communities like Boston or Los Angeles could emulate the mandate, says Dr. "People have a pent-up desire to dine out, go to restaurants and 'return to normal,' but we need to be safe … the best way to do that is to get vaccinated." "They'd be crazy not to mandate vaccines, because it's in their best interest," Gershon says. Other large, densely populated cities would especially benefit from a vaccine mandate for private companies, she adds, because it's easier for the virus to spread in such environments. Other cities could unveil their own vaccine mandates in the coming months 6.īelow, two public health experts and an employment lawyer explain how the new vaccine mandate could help curb the spread of the virus and what challenges the new rules could bring. Nearly 78% of New York City residents have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine as of Dec. "We've got omicron as a new factor, we've got the colder weather, which is really going to create additional challenges with the delta variant, we've got holiday gatherings," de Blasio said during his appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "We in New York City have decided to use a preemptive strike to really do something bold to stop the further growth of Covid and the dangers it's causing to all of us."
Under the new mandate, unvaccinated employees won't have the option to get tested instead, but the city plans to offer religious and medical exemptions.
27, unvaccinated employees must have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, de Blasio said.