Mayor Eric Adams, speaking at Citi Field where the Mets play, said Thursday that he had signed the order. The exemption was effective immediately.
NEW YORK — New York City’s mayor exempted athletes and performers from the city’s vaccine mandate following weeks of pressure from the sports world after the rule kept Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving from playing in home games and was expected to block several baseball players from taking the field in their upcoming season.
The city’s sweeping vaccine mandate for workers will still apply to people with other types of jobs, including private workers and government employees. Critics of the mayor’s decision, including several public employee unions whose members were fired for refusing to get vaccinated, blasted the mayor for seeming to lift the rule only for wealthy and famous athletes.
The city’s largest police union, which has sued the city over the mandate, said its officers “don’t deserve to be treated like second-class citizens.” Jay Varma, a health advisor to de Blasio, said in a tweet that the mandate had legal standing because it applied to everyone. but only when they played out of town games. When New York lifted rules several weeks ago requiring a vaccine to dine in a restaurant, work out at a gym or attend a performance, Iving was allowed to watch the Nets’ home games but not play or enter the locker room.Concerns had been raised this that the rule would also impact Major League Baseball.earlier this month, leading to speculation that another New York team would be hobbled by a player’s refusal to get inoculated.
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