U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday refused to block New York City's requirement that its public school teachers and employees be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Sotomayor denied a challenge by four teachers and teaching assistants who sought to halt enforcement of the vaccine mandate while their lawsuit challenging the policy continues in lower courts. Public school system workers were ordered to be vaccinated by 5 p.m. EDT on Friday or face being placed on unpaid leave until September 2022.
De Blasio said in a television interview on Friday that 90% of the city's education department employees were already vaccinated with at least one dose, including 93% of teachers and 98% of school principals. One of the plaintiffs, Rachel Maniscalco, who teaches in the city's borough of Staten Island, expressed concern about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, while the other plaintiffs contend they should be exempt because they have antibodies from a prior COVID-19 infection.
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