NYC vaccine mandate: Cops, firefighters and other workers now just hours away from deadline
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Shuttered firehouses, delayed trash pickups and fewer police officers and ambulances on the streets could soon become a reality in New York City as there are now only hours left for municipal workers there to comply to a coronavirus vaccine mandate.
"My job is to keep people safe — my employees, and 8.8 million people," Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a virtual news briefing on Thursday. "And until we defeat COVID, people are not safe. If we don’t stop COVID, New Yorkers will die."
De Blasio so far has held firm on the mandate as firefighters rallied the same day outside his official residence, sanitation workers appeared to be skipping garbage pickups in protest and the city's largest police union went to an appeals court seeking a halt to the vaccine requirement.
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