{"id":347464,"date":"2021-10-02T16:44:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T13:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/docs-say-taxis-should-require-shots-for-drivers-riders\/"},"modified":"2021-10-02T16:44:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T13:44:28","slug":"docs-say-taxis-should-require-shots-for-drivers-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/docs-say-taxis-should-require-shots-for-drivers-riders\/","title":{"rendered":"#Docs say taxis should require shots for drivers, riders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Docs say taxis should require shots for drivers, riders<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Should you need a jab to hail a cab?<\/p>\n<p>With shared vehicles basically rolling petri dishes, epidemiologists say it would be \u201cwise\u201d to require drivers and passengers of taxis and other hailed rides to be vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI certainly would be in favor of that,\u201d Dr. Barun Mathema, assistant professor of epidemiology at Columbia University\u2019s Mailman School of Public Health, told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>The risk of coronavirus transmission during a car ride can be \u201cuncomfortably high,\u201d depending on factors like the length of the ride, mask wearing, how quickly the virus is spreading in the community and, crucially, whether the windows are up or down.<\/p>\n<p>As it gets colder, Mathema said, riders \u201care just not going to want\u201d to keep the windows open. <\/p>\n<p>He called for \u201ccreative solutions\u201d to promote vaccinated rides, short of a mandate, perhaps including discounts for vaccinated riders, driver incentives or some kind of opt-in system for the jabbed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has to be coordination,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd this has to come from the government,\u201d or  one ridesharing company could lose business getting ahead of others with a mandate.<\/p>\n<p>The city Taxi &amp; Limousine Commission told The Post that while riders and drivers must mask up, neither are subject to vaccine requirements like some city and state workers. It refused to comment on a mandate.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/CORONAVIRUS-UBER-LYFT.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Epidemiologists say it would be &quot;wise&quot; to require drivers and passengers of taxis and other hailed rides to be vaccinated.\" class=\"wp-image-19675205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/CORONAVIRUS-UBER-LYFT.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/CORONAVIRUS-UBER-LYFT.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/CORONAVIRUS-UBER-LYFT.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Epidemiologists say it would be \u201cwise\u201d to require drivers and passengers of taxis and other hailed rides to be vaccinated.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An Uber rep said the company isn\u2019t requiring jabs right now, but it is promoting vaccines to riders and drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Lyft co-founder John Zimmer said in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2021\/08\/04\/lyft-president-john-zimmer-on-the-companys-strong-q2-results.html\">a CNBC interview<\/a> the company considered a vaccine mandate, but for now will stick with masks.<\/p>\n<p>Both taxi-killing Silicon Valley darlings require passengers to agree using their <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>s to mask up and keep the windows down before each ride.<\/p>\n<p>But Andrew Burgie, assistant research scientist at NYU\u2019s School of Global Public Health, said those measures were only \u201cthe best thing you could do until something better comes along\u201d \u2014 namely, the vaccine. Now that the shots are easy and free to get, he said it doesn\u2019t make sense to rely on what he called \u201csecondary controls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would make sense to have a mandate,\u201d he said. \u201cIf everybody were inoculated, then we wouldn\u2019t necessarily need to worry about masks.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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With shared vehicles basically rolling petri dishes, epidemiologists say it would be \u201cwise\u201d to require drivers and passengers of taxis and other hailed rides to be vaccinated. \u201cI certainly would be in favor of that,\u201d Dr. Barun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":347465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/taxi-vaccination.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[116947,1545,70344,82862,76916,73424,94108,71169,1450],"class_list":["post-347464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-10-2-21","tag-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus-in-ny","tag-covid-vaccine","tag-lyft","tag-ride-sharing","tag-taxi-and-limousine-commission","tag-taxis","tag-uber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}