NYC's Public Workforce Now 93% Vaccinated Against COVID

Nearly 4,500 city workers got the COVID-19 vaccine after a mandate took effect last week and they started losing paychecks.

Posted Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 2:05 pm ET

NEW YORK CITY — An ever-dwindling number of New York City municipal workers remain resistant to getting the coronavirus vaccine.

The city's workforce is now 93 percent vaccinated against COVID-19, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday.

He said several departments that had large shows of vaccine resistance had huge jumps in vaccination rates.

Nearly 4,500 city workers got the COVID-19 vaccine after a strict workforce mandate took effect last week and they started losing paychecks, he said.

“The important thing is we have seen even in the last few days those numbers continue to go up at the fire department,” he said.

NYPD is now 86 percent vaccinated and FDNY firefighters are now 82 percent, de Blasio said.

Unions for those departments remain the few holdouts in reaching deals with the city over the COVID-19 mandate.

De Blasio said 20 city worker unions represented nearly 100,000 employees have now struck deals that effectively end their objections to the mandate.

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