Rowdy protests. Trash thrown on the Mayor’s mansion. Suspensions following threats to state Senate staffers. With the pushback towards New York Metropolis’s vaccine mandate amongst a comparatively small variety of authorities workers grabbing headlines all week, it may need been straightforward to overlook one easy truth: The mandates are working.
Whereas 26,000 individuals missed Friday’s 5 p.m. deadline (and its accompanying $500 money bonus), hundreds extra throughout metropolis companies have been impressed to get the shot, based on information offered to Gothamist by Mayor Invoice de Blasio’s workplace:
… the NYPD’s vaccination price rose to 84% on Friday, up from 79% the day prior. FDNY’s price elevated to 77% from 69%. The Sanitation Division went from 67% to 77% .
Final night time, the mayor introduced that 91 % of metropolis staff now had one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, after a Saturday surge noticed an extra 2,300 pictures. In all, based on Gothamist, 19,000 workers joined the ranks of the vaccinated because the metropolis did away with weekly testing instead.
BREAKING: 91% of Metropolis staff at the moment are vaccinated. 2,300 extra staff acquired the shot at the moment alone.
They’re delivering for his or her communities day-after-day, and we’re not finished but.
— Mayor Invoice de Blasio (@NYCMayor) October 31, 2021
Nonetheless, there are holdouts—and obvious “sick outs”, particularly amongst protesting firefighters, which have curtailed companies inside some firehouses within the metropolis. “Irresponsible bogus sick go away by a few of our members is making a hazard for New Yorkers and their fellow firefighters,” FDNY Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro stated in a press release. “They should return to work or threat the implications of their actions.”
And there was an uptick in complaints about uncollected trash within the famously trash-strewn metropolis, based on native press.
Unpaid go away for the remaining vaccine-resistant kicks in on Monday.