{"id":77170,"date":"2021-08-02T21:07:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T01:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=77170"},"modified":"2021-08-02T21:10:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T01:10:27","slug":"how-is-this-governor-even-still-there-after-signing-the-infanticide-law-committing-geriatric-genocide-and-serial-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=77170","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Cuomo Coerces All Private Businesses to Demand Proof of Covid Vaccination"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Cuomo asks businesses to go to<br \/>\n&#8216;vaccine-only admission&#8217;<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->BY MYCHAEL SCHNELL<br \/>\nThe Hill<\/p>\n<p>New York Gov.\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/andrew-cuomo\" data-nid=\"490139\">Andrew Cuomo<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(D) on Monday said he has asked private businesses to only offer admission to patrons who have been vaccinated against COVID-19, contending that it is \u201cin your best business interest\u201d to adopt the new policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrivate businesses, I am asking them and suggesting to them: Go to vaccine-only admission. Go to vaccine-only admission. We did this, Radio City Music Hall, months ago. Reopened vaccine-only, sold out all the shows. Sports arenas. They went up to about 90 percent vaccine-only. Private businesses, bars, restaurants. Go to a vaccine-only admission. I believe it&#8217;s in your best business interest,\u201d Cuomo said during a news conference.<\/p>\n<div id=\"rhic7n3t6p7zm\" class=\"rhcyfx7eamxj rh-ear\" data-embed-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSNews\/status\/1422194836908691461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-rhp=\"1\" data-at=\"1\" data-kas=\"_yOMNZmExHq\" data-et=\"0\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1422194836908691461&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fstate-watch%2F565920-cuomo-asks-business-to-go-to-vaccine-only-admission&amp;sessionId=ca65518673f425da3c441bd5de017073bafbfe03&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1422194836908691461\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"dfp-ad-incontent_desk_1-wrapper\" class=\"dfp-tag-wrapper wrapper\">\n<div id=\"dfp-ad-incontent_desk_1\" class=\"dfp-tag-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cuomo said he thinks implementing \u201cvaccine-only admission\u201d will help incentivize New Yorkers to get inoculated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you say to people, &#8216;Well, if you don&#8217;t have a vaccine, you can&#8217;t get into these establishments,&#8217; then you will see a real incentive to get vaccinated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo also urged local governments to adopt the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/565142-cdc-backtracks-with-new-mask-guidance\">new guidance<\/a>\u00a0from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released last week that urges vaccinated Americans to wear masks in \u201cpublic, indoor settings\u201d in parts of the country with \u201csubstantial\u201d or \u201chigh\u201d levels of transmission.<\/p>\n<p>New York City Mayor\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/bill-de-blasio\" data-nid=\"440607\">Bill de Blasio<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(D) stopped short of ordering a mask mandate in the city on Monday but sent a \u201cstrong recommendation\u201d to all residents to wear masks in public indoor facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo\u2019s push comes as the country is seeing a spike in COVID-19 cases, driven largely by the highly infectious delta variant that has become the dominant strain in the U.S.<\/p>\n<div id=\"dfp-ad-incontent_desk_2-wrapper\" class=\"dfp-tag-wrapper wrapper\"><\/div>\n<p>The number of New Yorkers who tested positive for COVID-19 slightly increased in the past five days, before falling on Sunday to 2,516 people, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19tracker.health.ny.gov\/views\/NYS-COVID19-Tracker\/NYSDOHCOVID-19Tracker-DailyTracker?%3Aembed=yes&amp;%3Atoolbar=no&amp;%3Atabs=n\">state\u2019s COVID-19 tracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>New York was the first state in the U.S. to implement a vaccine passport. The Excelsior Pass, as of late May, had been downloaded\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/556253-11m-new-york-state-vaccine-passports-downloaded-since-launch\">more than 1 million times<\/a>\u00a0since it was launched in March.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo said that while the mask policy \u201cwill be important,\u201d he does not believe such an effort \u201cis going to be enough.\u201d He said he thinks discussions about a \u201cvaccination policy\u201d will have to start.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does that mean? Well, we&#8217;ve taken the first step [as a state] &#8230;\u00a0which is you either have to get a vaccine or a weekly test. That&#8217;s the first step, but it&#8217;s only the first. And that I believe we need to expand,\u201d Cuomo said.<\/p>\n<p>The governor last month announced that New York will require state employees to be vaccinated or get tested weekly, starting Sept. 6,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/new-york-require-state-employees-be-vaccinated-or-get-tested-cuomo-2021-07-28\/\">Reuters reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He said that while the policy is \u201ccontroversial,\u201d he thinks it \u201cshould be extended\u201d to other public hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/565920-cuomo-asks-business-to-go-to-vaccine-only-admission?rl=1\">https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/565920-cuomo-asks-business-to-go-to-vaccine-only-admission?rl=1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuomo asks businesses to go to &#8216;vaccine-only admission&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}