A mandate requiring New York City teachers and other school staff members to get the COVID-19 vaccine went into effect, marking one of the first U.S. school district mandates requiring employees to be inoculated.
On Oct. 1, Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, warned the city’s 150,000 public school workers that unvaccinated employees would be placed on unpaid leave and wouldn’t be allowed to work. The mandate went into effect that afternoon, meaning that all teachers and workers would have to have received at least one dose by the morning of Oct. 4.
