Dr. Ashwin said he was also keeping the city's mask mandate for children under the age of 5 in place until further notice.
Dr. Ashwin Vasan is the new commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. He sat for an interview with Fox 5 News.New York City's new Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan says that the city's private sector vaccine mandate will remain in place indefinitely.
"Our mandates have been the most important life-saving policies that we've put into place and it's built up a wall of immunity against whatever this mandate does to change or may throw at us in the future," Vasan said at a briefing on Friday. The news will have serious implications for not just workers in the city, but possibly also for the city's professional sports teams.
Players on the New York Yankees and the New York Mets will have to be vaccinated in order to play in home games, and the ruling will continue to keep Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving off the court in New York City.
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