
About 9,000 workers — less than 2.5 percent of the city’s 378,000-person workforce — were placed on unpaid leave because they didn’t get vaccinated, despite protests and threats from anti-vaccine contingents in the police, fire and sanitation departments that the mandate would lead to massive labor shortages. Another 12,000 workers have pending medical or religious exemptions, officials said.
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