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Health

NYC COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private businesses takes effect as Omicron keeps driving infection spike

By Isabel Song Beer Posted on December 27, 2021
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Speaking to New Yorkers in one of his final press conferences Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio and a panel of experts and guest speakers addressed the burgeoning threat of the Omicron variant of COVID, and the new private business vaccine mandate.

As of Monday, according to speaker Dr. Ted Long, there have been 296 new COVID-related hospital admissions and 17,334 newly reported cases of the virus. Additionally 13,101,389 vaccination doses have been administered.

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NYC COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private businesses takes effect as Omicron keeps driving infection spike

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