New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced in January that health care workers would have to get a COVID vaccine booster to remain on the job. Six weeks later, the state has dropped the booster mandate for now, seeking to avoid staffing shortages.
That leaves about 25% who haven’t received the booster and haven’t signaled a willingness to do so, putting more than 200,000 health care workers at risk of suspension or termination, had the mandate gone into effect Monday.
“While we are making progress with 75% of staff received or are willing to receive their booster, the reality is that not enough healthcare workers will be boosted by next week’s requirement in order to avoid substantial staffing issues in our already overstressed healthcare system,” she said in a statement
The percentage of New York workers who have received a booster shot varies widely by sector, according to the data released by the Department of Health.
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