NYC Vaccine Mandate

The NYC Department of Education says it continues to monitor COVID-19 rates and understands frustrations around the vaccine mandate to attend prom, but the requirement isn’t going anywhere for now. NBC New York’s Gus Rosendale reports.

Many are considering the new changes a double standard in the city’s vaccination policy, claiming there are different rules for wealthy athletes and performers, and another set of rules for everyone else. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

There are many critics of Mayor Eric Adams’ move to end the city’s vaccine mandate for professional athletes and performers, saying millionaire athletes are getting a pass while workers lost their livelihoods over the same issue. NBC New York’s Gilma Avalos reports.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams is expected to make a COVID-related policy change that Nets fans will appreciate, allowing athletes to be exempt from the city’s private sector vaccine mandate. Though some are not happy with the decision. NBC New York’s Adam Harding and Bruce Beck report.

NYC’s sweeping vaccine mandate for workers will still apply to people with other types of jobs, including government employees. The city suspended numerous public employees for refusing to get vaccinated, including public servants like firefighters and sanitation workers

New COVID-19 policies in New York could allow unvaccinated players, such as Kyrie Irving, to play home games in New York.

Lifting the mandate as it applies to athletes would mean that Kyrie Irving would be allowed to play games at Barclays Center once again, and unvaccinated Yankees and Mets would be allowed to take the field for home games when their seasons start.

Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving and other unvaccinated athletes may soon be allowed to play home games in New York City once again, as the city plans on lifting the private vaccine mandate as it applies to athletes, multiple sources confirmed to NBC New York.

The 1,430 fired workers — about 64 percent of whome worked for the city’s education department — represent less than 1 percent of the 370,000-person city workforce, and are far fewer terminations than expected

Before possibly lifting the school mask mandate, Gov. Kathy Hochul first wants more at-home COVID test kits sent home with students. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

City Hall braces for possible rally and protest against the job loss of approximately 3,000 city workers who remained unvaccinated by NYC vaccine mandate deadline on Feb 11th. Jessica Cunnington reports.

A lawsuit has been filed in federal court challenging New York City’s sweeping mandate requiring nearly all private-sector businesses to ban unvaccinated employees from the workplace, asserting that the city’s attempt to control the coronavirus pandemic deprives tens of thousands of businesses from pursuing their livelihoods.

Chris Glorioso and Gus Rosendale have team coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.

As New York City is poised to implement the most aggressive vaccine requirement in the country, protests against the mandate have ramped up and several people were arrested at a Cheesecake Factory. The NYPD said protesters entered the restaurant chain in Queens Center Mall on Tuesday night. They refused to provide proof of at least one dose of the COVID-19…

City Hall released comprehensive guidelines Wednesday on the looming private-sector vaccine mandate set to take effect later this month, a strictest-in-the-nation order Mayor Bill de Blasio has called a preemptive strike against the triple COVID threat posed by omicron’s emergence, delta’s severity and the holiday season.

The COVID-19 vaccines have proven incredibly safe and wildly effective, and many hoped they would bring an end to the crisis. But a year later, too many Americans remain unvaccinated. NBC New York’s Romney Smith reports.

A COVID vaccine mandate for the city’s jail workers should be blocked, the union representing the workers said in a lawsuit that calls for a return to allowing regular virus testing and blasts the city-required 12-hour shifts that were implemented in anticipation of mandate-related staffing shortages

Mayor de Blasio faces pushback after recent additions in city-wide vaccine mandates. Chris Glorioso reports.