{"id":422629,"date":"2022-03-28T04:47:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T01:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/eric-adams-needs-to-expand-vaccine-exemptions-to-everyone\/"},"modified":"2022-03-28T04:47:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T01:47:47","slug":"eric-adams-needs-to-expand-vaccine-exemptions-to-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/eric-adams-needs-to-expand-vaccine-exemptions-to-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"#Eric Adams needs to expand vaccine exemptions to everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df60c066bc\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3df60c066bc\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/eric-adams-needs-to-expand-vaccine-exemptions-to-everyone\/#%E2%80%9CEric_Adams_needs_to_expand_vaccine_exemptions_to_everyone%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Eric Adams needs to expand vaccine exemptions to everyone&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/eric-adams-needs-to-expand-vaccine-exemptions-to-everyone\/#No_longer_necessary\" >No longer necessary<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/eric-adams-needs-to-expand-vaccine-exemptions-to-everyone\/#Economy_suffers\" >Economy suffers<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CEric_Adams_needs_to_expand_vaccine_exemptions_to_everyone%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Eric Adams needs to expand vaccine exemptions to everyone&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Mayor Adams has exempted professional athletes and performers from the city\u2019s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers. This overdue and commendable action highlights the absurdity of continuing the city\u2019s mandates for other private workers and city employees. Simply put, there is little to gain from continuing these mandates and lots to lose.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vaccine mandates attracted attention in October when Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving refused to comply with an earlier city mandate requiring anyone entering an indoor venue, including basketball arenas, to be vaccinated. That meant Irving could not play in the 43 regular-season home <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s in Brooklyn. The team balked at having a part-time player and excluded him from practices and road games, a policy it relaxed in December when Omicron infected Brooklyn\u2019s vaccinated players and depleted the roster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Three weeks ago, Adams proclaimed, \u201cIt\u2019s time to open our city and get the economy back operating,\u201d and lifted the indoor venue mandate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But another mandate \u2014 a first-in-the-nation vaccine mandate for private businesses \u2014 imposed in December by then-Mayor Bill de\u2009Blasio just five days before leaving office, remains in effect. It requires workers at New York City businesses to show proof of vaccination. This would have kept Irving off the basketball court and New York\u2019s unvaccinated baseball players off the field in the season that starts in two weeks.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/AP22087032841296.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) acknowledges the crowd in the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Charlotte Hornets.\" class=\"wp-image-21681504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/AP22087032841296.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/AP22087032841296.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/AP22087032841296.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/AP22087032841296.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving missed out on 43 regular-season home games in Brooklyn because he chose not to be vaccinated.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/John Minchillo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"No_longer_necessary\"><\/span>No longer necessary<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Adams\u2019 athletic exemption was undoubtedly influenced by the incongruity of requiring vaccinations for athletes playing in front of thousands of unmasked fans who may or may not be vaccinated. Yet the mayor should end the mandate for all employees, including city workers covered by a separate mandate imposed in October, since they no longer protect workers from \u00adinfection.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Initially, vaccines were effective at stopping infection with the virus that causes COVID-19. But effectiveness against transmission has progressively declined as new viral variants have supplanted older ones.<\/p>\n<p>By the time the private-business mandate went into effect, the highly transmissible Omicron variant was sweeping the nation and comprised 85% of New York-area cases. It was already clear that vaccines provided far less protection against Omicron infection than against earlier variants. Vaccines provide even less protection against the newer and more transmissible Omicron BA.2 subtype, which currently accounts for 35% of cases nationwide and 52% in the New York area.<\/p>\n<p>Vaccine mandates are also unnecessary to protect the healthcare system from being overwhelmed. New hospital COVID admissions have fallen to the lowest levels since early in the pandemic. Only 72% of ICU beds nationwide are in use, well within normal, pre-pandemic ICU-bed occupancy range. And of these beds, only 3.66% are being used for COVID-19 patients. New York ICU figures are identical.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS_NEW-YORK-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Demonstrators carry placards during a protest by New York City Fire Department (FDNY) union members, municipal workers and others, against the city's COVID-19 vaccine mandates on Manhattan's Upper East Side.\" class=\"wp-image-21681532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS_NEW-YORK-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS_NEW-YORK-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS_NEW-YORK-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS_NEW-YORK-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>As many as 1,430 municipal employees were laid off because of their refusal to comply with vaccine mandates.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Mike Segar<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Employee mandates seem pointless when 87% of New York City residents 18 and older \u2014 those in the work force \u2014 are fully vaccinated and another 10% are partially vaccinated. Nationwide, 89% of the most vulnerable population, ages 65 and older, is fully vaccinated. Moreover, more than half of the US population has had COVID-19. Natural immunity following recovery provides at least as good immunity as vaccination.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Economy_suffers\"><\/span>Economy suffers<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Continuing the mandates will hobble businesses that are already struggling to fill vacant positions. The city-worker mandate has resulted in 1,430 employees, including essential workers such as police, firefighters and teachers, being laid off. Thousands more city workers await rulings on their exemption <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>lications.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vaccination is still strongly recommended for most people. Even though effectiveness against infection has waned, the shots remain highly effective at protecting against severe COVID disease and death. While I and other medical professionals think that workers who refuse vaccines are misguided, the people they are potentially harming are themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"697\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/AFP_32622VY.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"In this file photo taken on February 17, 2021 a nurse administers the Covid-19 vaccine to an elderly patient at the Dunkirk hospital.\" class=\"wp-image-21681512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/AFP_32622VY.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/AFP_32622VY.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/AFP_32622VY.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/AFP_32622VY.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Even as vaccination rates tapered off, COVID-19 infections have remained low and non-threatening.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Adams may not want to give the appearance of backing down to city employees who refused vaccination orders while most of their colleagues obeyed. A potential compromise would allow the return of unvaccinated city workers who can demonstrate recovery from a COVID infection or adherence to periodic testing.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor seems genuinely interested in promoting the city\u2019s economic recovery. But recovery cannot occur when thousands of private and city employees are barred from work. The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> shows that the time has come to lift these outdated and unnecessary employee mandates.\n                        <\/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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This overdue and commendable action highlights the absurdity of continuing the city\u2019s mandates for other private workers and city employees. Simply put, there is little to gain from continuing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":422630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/mayor-eric-adams-4.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[127205,1545,82862,66147],"class_list":["post-422629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-3-27-22","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-vaccine","tag-eric-adams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422629","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=422629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}