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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Businesses, including restaurants and small businesses have done everything right to protect their employees and customers. Shutting down the city will destroy the city completely! As I stated in a previous comment, blame the people who are walking on the street without masks (or wearing them on their chins or as a bracelet) and those not social distancing or gathering in groups. I’m in Forest Hills and since this started I have seen maybe! a handful of people going to and from temple wearing a mask and the russians, think they’re above the covid laws as well as above every law of this country. Fine them!
Did you know you can google it? You’ll find 187 million results, like this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2020/12/15/this-is-how-quickly-covid-19-can-spread-in-a-restaurant-per-new-study/?sh=83fef2f1fe4c
Sounds like you don’t even know what science is.
Does that included stores in Nassau. County?
We’ll be living in tents in front of Dumbazios house. They can shove their BFD $600 stimulus up their .
He doesn’t need any research. It’s not based on scientific facts, it’s a competition with his best frenemy – Gov. Cuomo. Who can hurt NY more and most effectively. They won’t stop till the whole city looks like the movie “Escape from New York”
after the holidays? what’s the point edith?
This dumblasio. There is no end to his stupidity and shutdowns. Where’s the research that proved covid spread thru restaurants.