Mayor Bill de Blasio Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office
Dec. 15, 2020 By Allie Griffin
Mayor Bill de Blasio said New York City could face a second shutdown after Christmas–should COVID-19 cases continue to rise.
“We’re dealing with a second wave…,” de Blasio said. “We’re going to need to do some kind of shutdown in the weeks ahead.”
The mayor said that while the state ultimately makes the call as to whether to close nonessential businesses, he would recommend a shutdown go into effect following the major holiday.
“My nomination would be right after Christmas,” the mayor said.
The holiday season is expected to cause a significant uptick in the already soaring number of new COVID-19 cases, health experts say. On Sunday, the number of new cases climbed to more than 2,800 — far above the city’s ideal threshold of 550 new cases.
“We want to be under 550,” de Blasio said. “It’s going to take weeks and weeks to get back down there, but we will, especially now that we have the vaccine on our side.”
De Blasio estimated that nearly 41,000 doses of the vaccine would be disbursed across 42 hospitals around the city by the end of Tuesday.
“Today we start the beginning of a new era,” de Blasio said. “Today we begin the work of ensuring that the vaccine reaches as many New Yorkers as possible as quickly as possible.”
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Shut down businesses? Why not raid parties where all the morons congregate and sentence them to prison time for not complying. If NYC really wants to drop the number of cases, start enforcing masks. Fine people thousands and see if they will keep taking their masks off. Businesses comply with the rules, so why should they be the ones to blame for all of this?
Meant to say, I may have to go that route again…..UNLESS the next candidates aren’t useless, like this moron. Sorry about that.
Its so easy for him to say…..since he lives off our tax dollars. As a Democrat, I regret voting for him. The last 2 mayors I voted for were Republicans, unless the next candidates aren’t useless like this moron.