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Health-Care Unions Say Vaccine Not The Only Tool to Cope With COVID

By CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 7/22/21

As the city applies pressure to increase vaccination rates among its health-care workers with a mandate that they either get vaccinated or take weekly coronavirus tests, unions representing those employees argued that vaccinations were just “one piece of the puzzle” to lower COVID rates.

Two of the unions representing workers in the city’s health-care system, District Council 37 and the New York State Nurses Association, have opposed mandatory coronavirus vaccinations as a condition of employment. Several private hospitals across the city and state, including New York Presbyterian, have moved to implement such requirements.

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