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Governor Hochul plans to expand vaccine mandates to include employees working with Mental Health and Office for People with Developmental Disabilities clients.

One dose. thats about 15 million more shots. and theres more than one type of mandate. some are specific to certain jobs. those mandates are also working like mandates for health care workers. in some of the big states, driving a huge uptick in recent vaccinations. many are choosing to go ahead and get their shots now rather than do constant weekly testing or face the risk of losing their jobs if they dont have a valid exception. meanwhile in new york state, the vaccine mandate specifically for ...

About the holiday season. >> i will be spending christmas with my family. i encourage people, particularly the vaccinated people who are protected, to have a good, normal christmas with your family, but just the way all of the other disinformation goes around, you say something, talking about a landmark of a time and it gets misinterpreted that im saying you cant spend family christmastime, which is nonsense. you can. >> reporter: today vaccine mandates went into effect for new york citys public...

Nonsense. you can. >> reporter: the cdc issued guidelines saying in part the safest way to celebrate is virtually with people who live with you or outside and at least six feet apart from others. the cdc continuing to recommend unvaccinated people delay travel until they are fully vaccinated. to date about two-thirds after d -- two-thirds of adults are vaccinated. today public city school employees, the mayor said 96% of teachers have received one dose of the covid-19 vaccine. in connecticut, st...

Of ventilated people and we still have a very large number of patients, especially young patients who didnt get the booster were not vaccinated so the strain on the system is quite high but on the other hand we didnt get into lockdown, we open schools with a system of weekly testing and hopefully we will find direction. covid its notjust about the cases, it is about mental health. and all the other things.— it is about mental health. and all the other things._ if i l the other things. thank yo...

The aim of President Biden's "Path Out of the Pandemic," announced on September 9, 2021, is to increase the number of vaccinated workers across the country.

Because, obviously, there is so much push back where its like why dont you let them do the job they were hired to do? and that is secure our southern border? pete: texas is having to build temporary walls themselves. ainsley: no common sense. pete: none. ainsley: hand it over to jillian. jillian: dozen members of congress sign a letter to demand the release of stuart scheller. he was put in a bringing after he openly criticized afghanistan. he is to stop posting videos on social media. he is set...

The new york city mayor will have a new testing plan to keep our schools open. >> starting on the 27th. first of all, we will now go to weekly testing. well testing in elementary, middle and high school. each school every week when there is a positive test in a classroom. the unvaccinated students in the classroom will not have to quarantine if they have masked and three feet distanced. >> walk through two points and tell me if you think the mayor has it right. number one, weekly testing. number...

That kids under 12 couldnt get the vaccine. we had to work with our employers not oppose them on vaccine requirements. and what is happening in the biggest three districts is that is what has happened now. you have to give voice and work out the implementation details which new york city didnt do until they had that arbitration. >> i understand. it is basically about getting to that final 10%. as you know, some are presenting the idea of weekly testing as a safe alternative to vaccination. we al...

Spread of delta. its numbers like that which are behind president bidens push to get more of the country vaccinated. but there is growing political opposition to the vaccine mandates that the president announced last week. nbc news correspondent morgan chesky has more on the more than dozen governors, all republicans, who are pushing back on those requirements. >> reporter: growing backlash over president bidens vaccine mandate. at least 19 republican governors denouncing the rule, requiring bus...