Nationally, about 79% of municipal workers in cities surveyed are fully vaccinated against Covid, well above the country’s overall rate of 58%.
Stephanie Formas, the chief of staff for Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, said that following the science and the data has been the city’s North Star throughout the pandemic. The Seattle region was one of the first hit by Covid, with the one of the“When we introduced our vaccine mandates for city employees ... we did it with the united front, because all of us believed how important it was to protect our employees,” she said.
Los Angeles is the only city of the 20 in the analysis where the municipal Covid vaccination rate was lower than that of the general population; 74 percent of city workers are vaccinated, just short of the city’s overall rate of 79 percent. The lower rate is attributed to fewer vaccinations among the city’s parks and street services employees, as well as its police and firefighters.Police and firefighter vaccination rates lag behind those of other municipal workers in most cities, the data show.
“Somebody working from home is not going to spread the virus, that’s for sure. But somebody who’s working in a public facility and going face to face with people ... they run the risk of infecting other people if they’re infected,” said Dr. Robert Lahita, the director of the Institute for Autoimmune and Rheumatic Diseases at St. Joseph’s Health in Paterson, New Jersey.Unions representing police officers and firefighters have protested mandates and clashed publicly with officials.
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