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Vaccine Mandate for NYC Educators Survives Court Challenge
New York City’s vaccination mandate for school staff survived a court challenge Tuesday while hospitals across the state reported few disruptions to their services because of the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers.
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Vaccine Mandate Expands For NY Health Care Workers
Vaccine Mandate expands for workers with developmental disabilities. Andrew Siff reports.
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Anti-Vax Mandate Protesters Destroy City's COVID Testing Tent
New York City teachers and other school staff members are required to be at least partially vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Monday as the controversial mandate for the largest public school district in the country goes into effect. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.
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Vaccine Mandate in Effect for NYC School Employees
The COVID-19 vaccine mandate for New York City schools goes into full effect causing staffing concerns. Tracie Strahan reports.
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95% of Full-Time NYC Schools Staff Vaccinated as New Mandate Takes Effect Amid Protest
New York City teachers and other school staff members are required to be at least partially vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Monday as the controversial mandate for the largest public school district in the country goes into effect. Ninety-five percent of all full-time schools staff met that requirement by the time the city’s roughly million public school students were...
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Vaccine Mandate Begins Monday for NYC School Employees
New York City teachers and other school staff members are supposed to be vaccinated against COVID-19 when the bell rings Monday morning, in one of the first school district mandates in the country requiring employees to be inoculated against the coronavirus. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.
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Supreme Court Denies Request to Block NYC Schools Vaccine Mandate
New York City school workers will have to get the vaccine if they want to head to work on Monday after Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined to block a request for an injunction on the mandate. Andrew Siff reports.
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Supreme Court Refuses to Block NYC Teacher Vaccine Mandate as Shot Deadline Expires
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied a request from New York City teachers hoping to get a last minute injunction to stop the city’s vaccine mandate for educators and school staff. New York City’s roughly 148,000 school employees had until 5 p.m. to get at least their first COVID-19 vaccine shot, or face suspension without pay when schools...
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NY Vax Mandate Halted for Some Health Workers; NYC Teachers Face Deadline
Teachers opposed to New York City’s vaccine mandate for public school educators and other staff have filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking an emergency injunction that would keep it from going into effect. Meanwhile, the state’s vaccine mandate for health care workers has been halted. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.
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NYC Teachers Ask Supreme Court to Block City's Vaccine Mandate
A group of NYC teachers is taking their fight against the city’s vaccine mandate for educators to the Supreme Court. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.
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NY Vaccine Mandate Temporarily Blocked for Health Workers Claiming Religious Exemption
A judge issued a temporary and partial injunction Thursday against New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s vaccine mandate for health care workers, court documents stated, just days after it initially went into effect.
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NYC Teachers Ask Supreme Court to Block Vaccine Mandate
A group of New York City teachers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency order blocking the city’s vaccine mandate from going into effect Friday. The petition asks Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who is the circuit justice for this part of the country, to issue an emergency injunction blocking the mandate, which they claim would force thousands of...
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Long Island School District, Bus Company Reach Agreement to Avoid Service Interruption
Thousands of students on Long Island will be assured of a ride to school on Friday, after a school district and bus company came to an agreement to resolve a driver crisis and avoid an “interruption of services.” James Polansky, the superintendent of the Huntington Union Free School District in Suffolk County, said in a letter to parents Thursday afternoon…
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Long Island School District Scrambles After Bus Service Cancellation
At least 5,000 families in the Huntington Union Free School District in Suffolk County will be directly impacted after its school bus service provider abruptly canceled 76 bus routes. NBC New York’s Romney Smith reports.
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New York's Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers Challenged
The state’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers is getting a legal challenge. John Chandler reports.
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NY Hospitals Suspend Staff Who Refuse COVID-19 Vaccine
Many New York hospital workers who had been on the fence have since gotten inoculated against COVID-19 as the mandate went into effect Monday. But some holdouts remain and they have been suspended without pay. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.
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Health Care Workers Fired, Deadline Is Set For Schools
New York City education employees and health care workers refuse to get COVID-19 vaccine despite new city mandate. John Chandler reports.
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NYC Sets School Staff Vaccination Deadline For Friday
NYC Department of Education employees remain divided on vaccination requirements. Tracie Strahan reports.
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Hundreds Let Go From NY Hospital for Refusing Vaccine
Hundreds of healthcare employees lost their jobs after refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine as required by Gov. Kathy Hochul’s statewide mandate. Romney Smith reports.
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More NY Health Workers Get Vaccinated, Others Lose Jobs or Pay as Hochul Deadline Hits
Thousands of healthcare workers in New York faced getting vaccinated against COVID-19 or losing their jobs received at least one dose as Gov. Kathy Hochul’s statewide mandate neared, according to newly released figures. More than 650,000 workers at hospitals and nursing homes in the state had until Monday to get their first vaccine dose under the new requirement, sparking fears…