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Deferrals. and the judge in the lawsuit tossed out the case. she said the hospital was just quote, trying to do their business of saving lives without giving patients the covid-19 virus. if you measure success here by how many people got vaccinated in the ecosystem of people working at this one hospital system, this worked. a 97% vaccination rate among a single group of people, is probably higher than anywhere else in the world right now, so now other people are running houstons playbook. today,...

The unions about that. that is certainly something that the city is going to be looking at, but overall, a significant announcement here from the mayor and that city workers, 340,000 city workers, are going to have to be vaccinated. if not, theyre going to have to submit to weekly testing. >> all right, shimon prokupecz for us. thank you. lets bring in dr. leana wen. quick reaction to the news out of new york. >> i think this is exactly right. i think we should be doing this all across the count...

Mayor deblasio has expanded the vaccine mandate. what can you tell us about the reaction there has been? >> theyre seeing the number of covid positivity rates going up. the mayor says this is not sebl able. and as you point out, he announced today something that is pretty extreme. he is saying the citys entire wfs of more than 330,000 must be vaccinated or subject to weekly testing. they said this will include taeders, police officers, firefighters, and others. and he says he is doing this becau...