We've proven that with vaccine mandates and incentives, we can beat this virus.
Now we're taking another step towards the future — a private sector employee vaccine mandate.
He didn't elaborate but he said few businesses have had to be penalized to date because of the rules.
For the city's workforce, noncompliance with the vaccine mandate in the absence of an approved exemption comes with unpaid leave.
De Blasio said there is a "legal right of the health commissioner to keep the people of this city safe.
Both numbers drop dramatically when it comes to kids ages 5 to 17, 35.7% of whom are fully vaccinated.
Two years into the outbreak, COVID-19 has killed over 780,000 Americans, and deaths are running at about 860 per day. »