{"id":40766,"date":"2021-10-04T17:23:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T00:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40766"},"modified":"2021-10-04T17:23:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T00:23:29","slug":"nyc-celebrates-reaching-95-percent-of-school-employees-vaccinated-as-mandate-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40766","title":{"rendered":"NYC celebrates reaching 95 percent of school employees vaccinated as mandate starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">New York Mayor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ozmmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrntjfjmff_pvyhmmjqjbhljjjddyvc.html?a=&amp;b=42978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ozmmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrntjfjmff_pvyhmmjqjbhljjjddyvc.html?a%3D%26b%3D42978&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1633475045576000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFXnqUE3vzPbv6sarP2tselXEhOow\">Bill de Blasio<\/a>\u00a0(D) announced during a press conference Monday that 95 percent of staff from the city\u2019s Department of Education are vaccinated against the coronavirus as an employee mandate takes effect.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The mayor touted the public school employee vaccination rate, which reached 96 percent among teachers and 99 percent among principals, saying it shows that mandates work.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cLook, here\u2019s my message to all of the mayors of America, here\u2019s my message to all of the governors of America: Put these mandates in place. Put these incentives in place,\u201d he said. \u201cThey work. Do it now. Save lives and ultimately save this country from a longer crisis that could hold us down for months or even years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>By the numbers:<\/strong>\u00a0Since New York announced the mandate on Aug. 23, public school employees have received 43,000 doses, and the city as a whole will soon surpass 11.5 million doses, de Blasio said. New York saw 1.7 million doses administered since late July, with the daily vaccination rate jumping by 45 percent.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As of Monday, all the staffers working at the city&#8217;s more than 1,600 public schools are fully vaccinated, as unvaccinated employees without an exemption were placed on paid leave.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">These approximately 8,000 unvaccinated employees are on unpaid leave and \u201cwill be welcomed back in our system should they comply with the mandate,\u201d Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Mayor\u00a0Bill de Blasio\u00a0(D) announced&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40767,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40766\/revisions\/40767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}