New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state will expand its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers to include booster shots, becoming the first state to require boosters for health care employees while also signaling that a growing number of institutions are increasingly aiming to mandate them.
Hochul, a Democrat, said in a Friday news briefing that state health care workers are required to get the extra shots. The state will accept only medical—not religious—exemptions, consistent with previous mandates on COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 vaccines.
