All our hospitals are fully operational at this time. You're absolutely right that we've had a tremendous success at Health - Hospitals. President and CEO Mitchell Katz, NYC Health + Hospitals: Thank you so much, sir.
#Jehovah witness vaccine update#
I want you to hear an update from someone who's been leading the way throughout the COVID crisis, our own Dr. Also, the health care worker vaccine mandate began yesterday, very happy to report we're seeing great results, particularly in our public health system, which has been heroic throughout this whole struggle against COVID and so far, pretty good also with our voluntary and private hospitals. And that's going to make a much healthier environment for everyone, particularly for our kids. So, by Monday morning, 100 percent of the staff of the adults in our public schools will be vaccinated, at least one dose. And then those folks will go on leave without pay, who chose not to get vaccinated. But for anyone who has not gotten a dose by Friday at 5:00 pm, after all the encouragement, all the support, all the incentives, we're going to then assume you're not coming to work Monday morning as a vaccinated employee, and we will immediately find a substitute. If you're a Department of Education employee, you have until Friday at 5:00 pm to at least get that first dose, the vast, vast of majority have done it already, and we thank them. So, what we've done now is readjusted the timing because we had the delay in court, we’re giving all of our employees up until Friday at five o'clock. That means that all the court challenges are now exhausted, and the Department of Education vaccine mandate will go into effect. We're protecting the health and wellbeing of our employees, of our kids, of people who go to all these institutions as clients, as customers, and once again, yesterday, a federal – a panel of federal judges' court of appeals judges immediately confirmed that the New York City Department of Education vaccine mandate is absolutely legal and justifiable. And the vaccine mandates, they not only work, they are winning in court, time after time, there's been court challenges, state court, federal court, Key to NYC was challenged, the challenge against the education vaccination mandate, every single time the City of New York wins because we have a simple, simple argument. So, thank you for the leadership, that's tremendously helpful, and we see this across the whole city people stepping up. In fact, here's a figure from the about 5,000 people who work in the offices of Jehovah's Witnesses houses of worship around the state, 99 percent are vaccinated. One example from the faith community, and I want to correct something I said inaccurately before, because I've been given some information, turned out to be wrong, but I want to take responsibility here, I had the wrong information about the Jehovah's Witnesses community, and in fact we're really happy to say the Jehovah's Witness leadership has been very, very adamant supporting vaccination.
We've gotten help from public sector, private sector, community organizations, the faith community. So, many parts of the country wish they had the numbers we have because we've been just incessantly focused on vaccination, pushing it, pushing it, pushing it. We now have over 70 percent of all New Yorkers, all New Yorkers, over 70 percent have had at least one dose, over 82 percent of adults, at least one dose. And it's amazing what we're seeing overall. Average vaccinations per day have gone up 45 percent, 45 percent since the mandates were put in place, and that has meant over 1.3 million more doses of the vaccine, huge impact, life-saving impact. They looked at what has happened with vaccinations since the first mandates were announced on July 21st.
#Jehovah witness vaccine Patch#
There's a new analysis out by Patch based on city data that really puts an exclamation point on it. The $100 incentive, huge impact, the workforce mandates for public employees, the Key to NYC, dining, entertainment, fitness, all of them helped get more people vaccinated that increased health and safety and recovery. It’s fueling recovery, you go around the city, you feel the energy, you see the jobs coming back, why? Because of vaccination and what worked was a combination of incentives and mandates. We have seen just amazing, amazing progress when it comes to vaccination in the city.
I use a simple formula that I like to remind people, vaccination equals recovery, recovery equals vaccination. Mayor Bill de Blasio: Good morning, everybody.
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