Mayor Eric Adams blasted anti-mask activists and reminded people that COVID isn't over. In fact, the number of cases in Manhattan has been tracking north of the yellow threshold this week.
The city's color code is citywide, not borough-based. So the city's color code will not be increasing just yet, but New York City officials have indicated they expect the city to enter the yellow risk category in the coming weeks, citing the increased spread.
But that's not all: he says the city should make a new policy for people who have yet to get a booster. He wants the city to just go ahead and schedule them automatically. "Well, cases are rising in New York and what we saw in Europe, which has been ahead of us by a month on this wave and every wave is that eventually hospitalizations did start rising. It could happen here too. We don't know, but we should expect that," Levine said.
On Wednesday, the mayor said he did not know the now-fired city Law Department employee who attended one of those rallies before posing as a reporter at a press conference.And Adams had this message for people upset about mask-wearing.
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