Citing an exponential increase in coronavirus infections in just over a month, Governor Cuomo announced July 28 that the 130,000 state workers would be required by Sept. 6 to get a vaccine or submit to weekly testing.
"There's no doubt that the Delta variant is real—you can see it in the numbers," he said on a Zoom presentation to the Association for a Better New York. "The vaccine is the weapon that will win the war against COVID, and to get our vaccination rates up even more and protect New Yorkers from the Delta variant, we are now requiring all patient-facing health-care workers in state hospitals to get vaccinated by Labor Day."
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