Hiram Alejandro Durán/THE CITY The transit workers who kept the city moving through some of its darkest days took a sizable hit during the pandemic, with more than 160 MTA employees dying from COVID-19. Agency data shows that 41% of the more than 70,000 MTA employees have received at least one vaccine dose — about the same rate as city and state residents. But officials concede it won’t be easy to sway vaccine holdouts, even with the MTA offering workers four hours pay to get the shots. “Yeah, nah,” Richard Richards, a 46-year-old subway train operator, told THE CITY. “I don’t trust it.”