Mayor-elect Adams to keep NYC's private sector vaccine rule, explore school and booster mandates
NEW YORK — New York City’s new coronavirus vaccine mandate for the private sector will stay in place for the foreseeable future as omicron continues to drive up infection and hospitalization rates, Mayor-elect Eric Adams announced Thursday after weeks of speculation over how he would handle the new rule.
The private sector mandate — first announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio in early December — took effect Monday, and Adams has been evasive on whether he would keep the new rule in place once he takes over the reins at City Hall.
In a briefing with his health advisers Thursday morning, Adams finally confirmed he will keep the mandate, which covers workers at more than 184,000 businesses across the city, though he took a shot at de Blasio for doing the poor job at communicating the policy.
“If there was one critique, as I stated, I think that the mayor in the state of urgency which he faced, we could’ve all done a better job in communicating with our various stakeholders,” Adams said at Brooklyn Borough Hall.
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