New York State Hospital Workers Must Get Vaccinated, No Testing Option; New CDC Guidance Under Review – CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Gov. Andrew Cuomo got here out with main bulletins Wednesday concerning new COVID mandates in relation to vaccinations.

“President Biden, it’s reported that he’s going to announce quickly that each one federal employees to be vaccinated or get examined. New York state is doing the identical,” Cuomo stated.

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As CBS2’s John Dias experiences, Cuomo introduced vaccine necessities for the New York state workforce. In state hospitals, all patient-facing well being employees will likely be required to be vaccinated.

“There will likely be no testing choice for patient-facing healthcare employees,” Cuomo stated.

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Earlier this week, Mayor Bill de Blasio declared an analogous rule for metropolis employees, and Wednesday issued a brand new vaccine incentive, which begins Friday.

“100 {dollars} for any New Yorker who will get vaccinated at any city-run website,” de Blasio stated.

However the mayor failed to offer concrete perception a couple of potential indoor masks mandate for the Huge Apple after new recommendations from the CDC.

“It’s sophisticated info and we could have extra to say within the subsequent few days,” de Blasio stated.

That infuriated Metropolis Councilman Mark Levine.

“It might price lives,” Levine stated.

We have seen the information on fast rise in instances in NYC.

We have now acquired clear steerage from the CDC.

We want the State and Metropolis to subject clear steerage *immediately* for NYers to put on masks in indoor public locations.

We will not afford any additional delay.

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— Mark D. Levine (@MarkLevineNYC) July 28, 2021

Levine is the chair of the Council’s Well being Committee, and Democratic nominee for Manhattan borough president. He has been pushing for the reinstatement of the masks mandate for weeks.

“There may be actually no excuse for additional delay. We’ve got all the information we’d like,” Levine stated. “We’re seeing a couple of thousand new instances a day and so that is actual and it’s a extremely contagious type of this virus.”

With the harmful Delta variant on the rise, the CDC‘s new steerage says even individuals who have acquired a vaccine ought to put on masks indoors in areas the place the speed of an infection is excessive or substantial. It will not apply to Connecticut, the place all areas are thought-about average, however in New York and New Jersey, it consists of a number of areas.

Absolutely vaccinated New Yorkers Dias spoke with are largely for the mandate.

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“There’s going to be people who find themselves slower coming to the trigger,” stated Higher West Aspect resident Tom Barr.

“Individuals can lie about something, and also you simply don’t know, so be protected, put on a masks,” stated Far Rockaway resident Sean Perry.

“I believe we’re all on this collectively,” stated Higher East Aspect resident Margaret Tobin.

The brand new steerage is a reversal from two months in the past, when the CDC stated masks weren’t wanted for the vaccinated anymore.

“The virus has modified. What occurred is we have been dealing predominately with the Alpha variant,” stated Dr. Anthony Fauci. “The Delta variant is extra transmissible than the Alpha variant.”

The nation is averaging greater than 57,000 new instances a day. Most proceed to be amongst unvaccinated individuals: 97%.

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“So there isn’t any doubt that the explanation that we’ve got a lot illness proper now could be as a result of it has gone after those that are unprotected,” Fauci stated.