Other hospital systems in New York are considering requiring workers get vaccinated
NewYork-Presbyterian hospital system on Friday became the first health network in New York state to require its employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccines.
NewYork-Presbyterian, one of the largest hospital systems in the country, informed its 48,000 workers they would need to get their first COVID-19 vaccine dose by Sept. 1, joining a growing list of health care networks nationally issuing similar mandates.
The hospital system includes Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville and Hudson Valley Hospital in Cortlandt Manor, as well as Westchester Behavioral Health Center in White Plains. We care for sick people – some critically so – every day, and we are responsible for their safety while in our care, the mandate notice said.
New York State Team
New York had been on pace to spend about $1 billion on the historic effort to vaccinate its population against COVID-19, but slowing demand has led the state to pursue a shift in its strategy in recent weeks.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week urged local officials to shutter larger COVID-19 vaccination centers that have all but turned into ghost towns after months of churning out millions of doses to New Yorkers.
“We don t have enough people coming into vaccination centers to justify having the centers open right now,” Cuomo said during a media briefing Monday.
“We have centers open all day and two, three, four people show up,” he added.
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New York State Team
As many states loosen mask mandates for vaccinated Americans, health officials are changing how they track the risk of vaccinated people contracting COVID-19.
With more and more vaccinations happening every day, the concept of COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases infections that occur despite vaccination is becoming a more prominent part of the pandemic-era lexicon.
Experts say serious post-vaccination coronavirus infections remain exceedingly rare. And now, many health agencies nationally will focus on breakthrough cases resulting in hospitalization and death, rather than overall infections that include mild and asymptomatic cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.