Posted on 08/19/2021 2:03:24 AM PDT by Libloather
A month after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said that all municipal workers must get vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to weekly testing, the rate of inoculation among this 367,000-member workforce has barely budged.
As of Monday, 58% of city workers—or 211,115 people—have received at least one dose of the vaccines, according to data provided by the mayor’s office. Nearly 13,000 of those city workers got their first shots in the weeks following the mayor's mandate for hospital employees on July 21st and the universal requirement on July 26th.
That’s an increase of just four percentage points in four weeks, a testament to the challenge facing New York City officials as they desperately try to ramp up vaccination rates in the fight against the more infectious delta variant. Under the vaccination-or-test rule, all city workers must comply by September 13th, which is also the first day of public school.
"It’s good to see movement in the right direction, but the delta variant is moving much faster, and these low rates are no match," said Denis Nash, an epidemiology professor at the City University of New York.
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They are still trying to scare us with the devastation being wrought by the killer Delta variant.
Not seeing it.
Oh look! haha
Sad thing is the money paying for these ads, commercials, and actors probably came from Covid Relief. We are paying for the very propaganda being used against us.
video --> t.me/COVID19agenda/11356
Capitulating businesses hit hardest.
‘...Denis Nash, an epidemiology professor at the City University of New York.’
I think I see the problem here...
Many city employees are black, and as a group, they are the least vaccinated and probably most likely to refuse the vaccine. Let’s see how DeBlasio deals with that!
Meanwhile no vaxx mandate for CDC employees or or WH staff.
NYC Vaccine Mandate: CELEBRITIES ARE EXEMPT
Includes athletes.
Agreed, just like summer of 2020
Dead people are not face down in the gutter.
Funeral homes homes do not realize a spike in business.
Old folks, cancer folk, diabetes folk, lifelong smokers, all continue to die off in the same numbers as during the past two hundred years
You wouldn’t be shocked if the NYC restrictions applied to whites only, would you?
Noooo, couldn’t be!
Actually, I think in the case of black people, they’ll just quietly not enforce it without making any announcement. I’m sure that’s what they’re going to do with their restaurant and entertainment “passport.” Black patrons are not going to do it, and I think they’d be scared to confront their black patrons that way. Whites are too submissive.
Yep
Comply, Submit, bend over....
They will end up giving BIPOC’s exemptions to the vaccine passport rules on enforcement. Once that is found out we have a legal opening to end it.
This chinese virus has had a year and half to kill everyone so why is anyone alive?
Because it is a scamdemic!!
80%+ of the deaths are people 65 and older.
About 12% 55-64
Younger ages are single digits.
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