NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Announces Vaccine Mandate for All Municipal Workers

‘Families need to be safe’

EXCERPT:

GEIST: "So, what is the next step here? You put in the mandate for teachers. Now you’re going bigger with that. What’s the announcement?”
DE BLASIO: “It's a mandate now for all city agencies, all city workers. It’s time for everyone to get vaccinated. Our public employees are going to lead us out of the Covid era. Look, what we did with our schools worked. Our schools are incredibly safe. And families needed to know their kids would be safe. Well, we all need to know we’re going to be safe going forward. We got to end the Covid era. Our -- our police officers, our EMTs, our firefighters, all our public employees, a lot of whom come in very close contact with their fellow New Yorkers, they need to be safe, their families need to be safe but we also need to reassure all New Yorkers that if you’re working with a public employee, they’re vaccinated, everyone is going to be safe.”

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