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Faces to make any comment. >> all the more reason, though, to get vaccinated, ensure that you have one of those mild cases here if you get it. salim abdool karim, doctor, thank you so much. >> pleasure. mayor bill de blasio announced new york city will implement a vaccine mandate for all private sector employers across the board as of december 27th. new york city will also strengthen vaccination screening at indoor public establishments, to include 5 to 11-year-olds. the vaccine mandate for private employers is interesting. i would love to learn more about exactly how that will be implements...

Center. they took their time on an emergency. >> exactly, harris. of course they are going completely to the stick now. what happened to the carrot? talking about 5-year-olds. we're still in the process of having pediatricians talk to to parent and now they can't go anywhere without the first shot. it will completely backfire. no testing option on the table here, no allowance for immunity after infection that you and i have been talking about. you have to then have a shot before you can go out. it makes no sense whatsoever. you have to have testing and natural immunity and you have to go slow ...

Health has confirmed 17 cases, most were aso ymptomatic. they needed a negative test before the cruise. >> captain came on and said we're going to test everybody. i couldn't believe how organized they were. >> reporter: and as for the new york city mandate, just like with public employees there will not be a weekly testing option for private sector employees either. and that mandate will apply to businesses where more than one person is employed and in addition to that, a lot of business leaders here in the city said they were sort of taken by surprise by this new man date announcement. they s...

>> the mayor says employees cannot operate a testing option for those who do not want to get vaccinated. i spoke to the partnership for new york city which represents businesses, they say they feel blindsided by the mandate and have questions how this will be enforced, and whether or not it is legal, sean. >> john: the streets of new york city, sandra, i thought it was interesting this goes into effect on the 27th. eric adams takes over as mayor a few days after that, and he has not committed to enforcing this. the mayor elect torah will make determinations based on sciencee professionals. thi...

Booster for people initially immunized with the pfizer vaccine produced a strong immune response with patients. this comes as cdc data show the pace of vaccinations is rising with an average of more than 2.2 million doses being stared daily. >> it's encouraging. we still have tens of millions who have chosen not to vaccinate themselves or their children in this country. >> reporter: as for the new york city mandate, just like with public employees, there will not be a testing option for private sector employees either. and that means that the mandate will also, we should tell you that that man...