Students who participate in a range of extracurricular activities including sports will no longer face a COVID vaccine requirement, Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday, ending the only mandate that applied to public school students.
In August 2021, the city announced that students participating in “high risk” extracurricular activities must be vaccinated against the coronavirus, a policy that covered roughly 20,000 students in the Public School Athletic League who play sports ranging from bowling to basketball. It also included students in chorus, band, and musical theater programs that weren’t part of their regular course loads.
Adams scrapped that requirement on Tuesday along with the vaccine mandate for private employers just before receiving the latest bivalent booster in front of reporters. But other vaccine requirements affecting public schools still stand: All staff must be vaccinated, including coaches who are employed by the city, and so must any visitors to school buildings, a policy that some parents have criticized.
City officials did not present a clear explanation about why the vaccine mandate is being peeled back in some contexts but not others.
“I don’t think anything dealing with COVID is — makes sense,” Adams said when asked about dropping the vaccine mandate for private employees but keeping it for public ones. “You make the decisions based on how to keep our city safe, how to keep our employees operating by taking the vaccine.”
Sounds like Adams knows how stupid, spiteful and wrong this vaccine mandate is but doesn't have the guts to abolish it entirely. Truly the most compromised elected official in this town.
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Leftist ideals have ruined multiple generations of men and women at this point.
Prove me Wrong...
Hiden's controllers are fundamentally transforming Merica.
I think JQ is a disgruntled city employee. If so, go get a real job in the public sector.
@“ Sounds like Adams knows how stupid, spiteful and wrong this vaccine mandate is ..”
And you still cry about the old folks who died in those homes. You want it every way.
Seems like you are a big whiney cry baby. Grow up!
Eric Adams is a stooge of NY Democrat billionaire donors. Adams does what he's told by these donors who run the NY Democrat party. Like QE II, Adams is a figurehead.
The swagger man with no plan.
@“ Leftist ideals have ruined multiple generations of men and women at this point.”
You mean Baby Boomer’s, not leftists.
Nice idea considering how many young people are dropping dead from the poison jab.
@And you still cry about the old folks who died in those homes
You mean the 15,000 people knocked over with various drugs like Remdesivir?
@I think JQ is a disgruntled city employee. If so, go get a real job in the public sector.
Nobody cares what you think TA commie.
You not capable of thinking, chatbot.
You sound like a profiler.
@"Eric Adams is a stooge of NY Democrat billionaire donors"
And the republican politicians aren't bought and paid for by billionaires and corporations? Your republican supreme court is responsible for a good share of this corruption.
FJB really should be committed to a nursing/hospice facility.
Governor Eyebrows do somthing !
"Your republican supreme court is responsible for a good share of this corruption. "
???
Man, this is not some activist outfit TA commie.
For your info, Clinton started all this corruption, never seen in American history before, the good old Arkansas Dixie Mafia fella.
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