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She just decided she was going to do and pushed it the entire city work force across the board. there is no skoorption. cooperation. firearm and the first responders. everybody supin arms about this mandate. harris: the president of the chicago s police union not holding back. urging police officers in one of america s most violent cities to defy the mayor s covid vaccine mandate. it took effect at midnight. the city will put unvaccinated workers on unpaid leave if they don t agree to testing. the democrat mayor said no bend. he is threatenning ....
This is about what we need to do to bring back new york city. plus the capital riot committee starts the work tomorrow as the feud between the house speaker and the republican leader gets more public and yes, more pointed. and it is infrastructure week again. still no deal despite the president s pledge to get one by today. republicans just rejected the democratic offer that was aimed at closing the big divides. we begin the hour with this covid surge. big new debates coast to coast about how to handle rising case counts. mask debates are back. vaccine mandates another big flash point today. just this morning, the new york city mayor put the entire city work force on notice. get vaccinated by september 13th or be required to get weekly covid tests. this means everybody. this means obviously everyone who worked in our schools, our educators and staff. it means the nypd, the fdny, all ....
Ante, and the nypd we ve reported only 43% of the department has vn vaccinated and members of the department of education as well. this means that by august 16th, the mayor said congregate setting workers like people who work in nursing homes, they will have to be vaccinated. and then by september 13th the entire city work force need to be vaccinated. that is running with the timing of when school starts here in new york city. so of course this is something that the mayor said he kind of hinted that this might need to happen. again because people were not getting vaccinated and we re seeing the numbers go up because of that delta variant. but now he s making it official. as far as what we ve seen in other cities of wearing a mask indoors again, even if you are vaccinated, the mayor said he isn t going to make that step just yet but hoping this will help and also encouraging privately owned companies to encourage their workers as well to get vaccinated to hopefully curb the numbers that ....
Employees. 340,000 employees roughly. this is going to include fdny, nypd. only 43% of the force is vaccinated currently. this is the department of education. inside the schools. again, all city employees. this is an enormous step. there are there is a timeline of when they have to get the vaccinated completed. so by august 16th th, just in a couple weeks, those who are working in a con gre gat sets, like shelters, they have to be vaccinated or face covid tests weekly. after that september 13th is the rest of the city work force which coincides with the beginning of the new york city school system. so, again, taking that next step forward, something that of course this country is trying to decide how to move forward to get people vaccinated and really suppress this delta variant that s spreading across the country. and new york is one of the states currently that has a higher level of vaccinated population when you look at the national average. ....
Shoulder the burden of a crisis that is of a magnitude that we haven t seen since a deprichlgts we ve cut about a bill job dollars over the last couple of years, about 4,000 employees have positions have left the city work force. so i think all of that coming together and just a to this point. and you ve also seen a big change demographically, the census report that came out this week shows that 50 and a half million his spake population growing to 50.5 million nationwide and in california 51% of the children are hispanic. this is an extraordinary change. what is the real impact as we re going forward in america? we re seeing a changing face in the united states. we are. ....