Two Days After Mandate Went Into Effect, The Vaccination Status Of Thousands Of City Employees Remains Unknown

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore’s vaccine mandate for each metropolis employees went into effect this week. Employees are required to amusement impervious of vaccination oregon behaviour play COVID-19 testing.

The latest figures from the mayor’s bureau amusement that arsenic of Wednesday morning, 56% of employees person uploaded impervious of vaccination. That is simply a 3% summation from the erstwhile day. But that leaves thousands of metropolis employees whose presumption is inactive unknown. Of the city’s astir 13,600 employees, astir 5,900 of them person not provided impervious that they person the shot.

Cities similar New York and Chicago volition enactment workers connected unpaid permission if they don’t travel the mandate.

Mayor Brandon Scott said determination could beryllium consequences for metropolis employees who take not to supply impervious of vaccination oregon behaviour play COVID-19 testing, but the politician did not specify what those consequences would be.

“We cognize that the process it’s conscionable kicking disconnected and we cognize that erstwhile you don’t travel rules and regulations determination are ever imaginable consequences,” said Scott. “As we are conscionable opening this, the investigating and everything is conscionable getting into gear, we’re going to spot wherever we are and hopefully we don’t person that [consequences] but we volition beryllium acceptable to respond accordingly.”

Some national leaders said they haven’t gotten capable details connected the vaccine mandate. Just this week, the occurrence national president said they were inactive waiting connected accusation connected wherever investigating sites volition beryllium located.

“We don’t adjacent cognize who the vendor is that’s going to beryllium doing this yet, truthful however are you going to bash investigating if we don’t cognize who the vendor is?” asked Rich Langford, the president of Baltimore Firefighters section 734.

“One of the biggest things our members request to cognize is precisely however this investigating is going to beryllium implemented,” Langford told WJZ. “We person nary idea. We’ve been told it’s going to beryllium done connected duty, but that besides brings successful a batch of logistical problems.”

The politician said employees volition person the investigating accusation they need.

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“We person dispersed those sites each crossed the metropolis to marque definite that our workers are capable to get to these places that are adjacent to their workplaces, making them a wide scope of hours truthful that we could person the entree necessary,” helium said.