One main query he’ll face is the way to deal with the reopening of colleges in January. Lecturers and college workers are required to be vaccinated, and Mr. de Blasio has mentioned he’s contemplating requiring a booster shot as properly. However Mr. de Blasio has been adamant that he doesn’t wish to set a vaccine mandate for college students, as Los Angeles has, as a result of it may immediate some dad and mom to maintain their kids at house.
Brad Lander, who will take workplace as metropolis comptroller on Jan. 1, has urged Mr. Adams and Mr. de Blasio to create a plan for all college students and workers — which might imply near 1,000,000 college students, 75,000 academics and hundreds of different workers members — to be examined in the course of the weekend earlier than faculty resumes.
Mr. Lander, Mr. Adams and Jumaane Williams, the town’s public advocate who lately examined optimistic for the virus, issued a joint assertion on Tuesday saying that they have been suspending the inauguration ceremony and urging New Yorkers to get boosted.
“We encourage all New Yorkers to get vaccinated, get boosted and get examined,” the assertion mentioned. “That’s our pathway out of this pandemic, and we are going to come out of it collectively.”
(Consultant Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican who represents Staten Island and a part of Brooklyn, disclosed on Tuesday that she has additionally examined optimistic; she mentioned she had been vaccinated and was experiencing delicate signs.)
With many New Yorkers’ vacation plans in danger and with circumstances surging, the time it takes to get check outcomes has additionally elevated at some places. Letitia James, the New York state legal professional basic, issued a warning letter to LabQ Diagnostics, a Brooklyn-based laboratory with dozens of cellular places throughout New York Metropolis, about falsely promoting that outcomes can be found inside 48 hours.
A brand new vaccine mandate for all non-public employers in New York Metropolis takes impact on Dec. 27. However some companies have already closed due to outbreaks or requested staff to work remotely. Citigroup gave its New York and New Jersey workers the choice to work remotely, and CNN closed its U.S. places of work to all staff who’re capable of work remotely.