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'War' in New York public schools over the resistance of some teachers to get vaccinated

2021-09-27T11:15:07.803Z


A federal appeals court agrees with teachers and suspends the mandatory immunization mandate for center staff


Children wearing masks on the first day of class in New York public schools, Sept. 13. BRENDAN MCDERMID / Reuters

Of the 70 million unvaccinated Americans - a headache for the Biden Administration, in the face of the push and contagiousness of the delta variant - many are teachers willing to take their individual right not to be immunized against COVID to the last consequences. -19. After the controversies registered in several southern states about the mandate of the mask in the classrooms, the obligatory nature of the vaccine for the workforce of the educational centers has the teachers of the public schools of New York, the largest country network.

Two weeks after the start of the academic year, the first in person after 18 months of the pandemic, with a mandate for masks for students, a federal appeals court suspended the vaccination mandate for teachers late this Friday, a suspension that will enter effective as of midnight next Monday. The ruling affects some 150,000 workers in the public network and contravenes the order issued by the mayor of the city, Bill de Blasio, which has been fiercely contested by the powerful teachers' unions.

The deadline given by the court coincides with the deadline that the mayor's office had given teachers to be vaccinated with at least one dose against covid-19. The appeals court for the Second Circuit, which underlines the provisional nature of the ruling, has referred the case to another court, but many doubt that it can be resolved in time, even as the three judges in charge of reviewing it deliberate throughout the weekend. Senior municipal officials cited by

The New York Times

trust that the final ruling confirms the mandatory nature of vaccination for adults - teachers and auxiliary personnel - employed in public centers.

Unlike cities like Los Angeles, which will require vaccination for all children over 12 years of age, New York has limited the use of a mask, hand hygiene and the separation between desks, safety measures for students against the coronavirus, whose incidence worsens significantly in the United States, with an increase in mortality of 26% in the last 14 days. To the political fight generated in the country by the mandatory vaccination plan launched by the Biden Administration, is added the worrying panorama of an eventual shortage of personnel and services in schools where a significant number of teachers and auxiliary personnel are not vaccinated. Parents' fear and union reluctance have collided for weeks.

But the controversy has also dragged justice. After a first sentence issued on the 10th by the arbitration system, which was favorable to the unredeemed teachers - they obtained permission to carry out other tasks outside the classrooms and not be

punished.

with a payroll cut for refusing the vaccine - last week, the newspaper recalls, a New York State Supreme Court judge ruled nevertheless that the city could keep the mandate in force, after considering a new union lawsuit. The judge stressed that the state and federal courts had upheld the mandatory vaccination orders. This Thursday, a federal judge in the Brooklyn district insisted that the vaccination mandate is "a rational political decision about the best way to protect children during a pandemic." Dissatisfied with the two rulings, the teachers appealed to the federal Court of Appeals, which has left the order up in the air.

Meanwhile, the effectiveness of masks in preventing infections has been highlighted in the latest data provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, in its English acronym; federal health agency).

The schools that have imposed the mandatory nature of the mask have much fewer infections than the rest, as shown by the case of Arizona, where its use is not required and which registers up to 3.5 times more infections.

The conclusions belong to a study carried out in a thousand counties in the country.

Source: elparis

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