NY Drops Booster Mandate For Health Care Workers

Gothamist reports:

When New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced in January that health care workers would have to get a COVID vaccine booster to remain on the job, she billed it as a necessary requirement to protect workers and patients alike. Six weeks later, the state has dropped the booster mandate – at least for now.

Hochul’s administration announced Friday that it wouldn’t begin enforcing the booster rule for health care workers Feb. 21, as it originally planned. Instead, the state Department of Health signaled it would push it off for at least three months before reassessing whether to impose it. The Health Department put the blame on staffing levels.

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New York State will not enforce its mandate requiring health care workers to get COVID-19 boosters in light of concerns about staffing shortages.https://t.co/VZ2PsmGzpe

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