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Vaccine mandates, vaccine requirements in place. >> reporter: the numbers are trending in the wrong direction and we're expecting an update with mayor bill de blasio and we'll bring you that as soon as he announces it. last week he announced that city workers will need to be vaccinated by mid-september or be subject to weekly testing. as you mentioned, governor cuomo also announced today some more restrictions, specifically when it comes to the mta and port authority by labor day, those folks in those agencies need to get vaccinated and subject to the weekly testing requirements, so here in ne...

Will delineate to new yorkers the best way to use masks. they don't change the basic reality, but vaccination does. so what we want to make sure is that everything supports vaccination, and focus people from vaccination, and it does not distract from vaccination or undermine vaccination. >> geoff, last week the mayor announced that all city workers have to be vaccinated by mid-september or subjected to weekly testing. and the governor earlier today said that the policy is that a similar policy is going to go into effect for all port and mbta authority workers. so we have had time to observe th...

Since that, 98% of the employees at the hospital system have been fully vaccinated. 2% received exceptions or deferrals, and the judge in the lawsuit tossed out the case, saying, quote, the hospital was just 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 anyone else in the world right now. so now other people are running houston's playbook....

At the hospital system have been fully vaccinated. 2% received exception or deferrals and the judge in the lawsuit tossed out the case, 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 anyone else in the world right now. so now other people are running houston's play book. today both the city of new york and...

Vaccination. because it will be the responsibility of the employee to get tested on a regular basis. and that comes with its own challenges. we're really depending on personal responsibility. that's going to say to people, just get vaccinated. get it done. be safe. help your colleagues be safe. don't have to go through the hassle of weekly testing. but to your larger question, look, i think we're all climbing a ladder here very rapidly. i think we need to look at every form of mandate and that's public sector and private sector. i've said to the private sector in new york city, any private sec...