Adams’s Virus Policy Includes Keeping Vaccine Mandate for Businesses
The New York Times
After a long silence on the subject, New York City’s incoming mayor said he would extend a number of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Covid-19 policies.
When outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a first-in-the-nation vaccine mandate for private businesses, its future was thrown into doubt by the fact that it would take effect during his last week in office.
Adding to the uncertainty, his successor, Eric Adams, declined repeatedly to take a position on the policy. Business owners who opposed it harbored hopes that he would promptly abandon it come January.
But on Thursday, with the highly contagious Omicron variant of the coronavirus driving up case counts across New York City, Mr. Adams declared that he would maintain the private-sector mandate, a move that Mr. de Blasio lauded on Twitter as “THE right call.”
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