San Jose City Council Sends Booster Mandate to Full Council

San Jose is connected way to o.k. an update to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate adjacent week that would necessitate impervious of a booster vaccine dose to entree city-owned facilities aft a metropolis assembly committee voted Wednesday to nonstop the connection to the afloat council.

The proposal, which the council's Rules and Open Government Committee approved Wednesday, would necessitate radical who sojourn places similar the SAP Center and the San Jose Convention Center to supply impervious that they person received a booster vaccination. 

The connection would besides necessitate metropolis employees to get a booster, if eligible, oregon beryllium that they person received one.

The committee besides approved that information of the proposal, which the afloat assembly volition sermon successful closed league anterior to holding a modular vote, perchance aboriginal this month, due to the fact that it would impact union-represented employees.  

“To debar crippling levels of hospitalizations and tragic outcomes, we person the large payment of wide entree to booster shots," Mayor Sam Liccardo said past period successful a connection announcing the proposal. 

The metropolis already requires employees and visitors to city-owned facilities to supply impervious of their archetypal vaccination series, but Liccardo argued that the prevalence of the highly contagious omicron variant requires that the metropolis to instrumentality steps that guarantee that its residents and employees are arsenic protected arsenic imaginable from the virus.

The connection includes exemptions for radical who received the 2nd dose of their archetypal vaccine bid wrong the anterior six months, arsenic good arsenic children who are not eligible for boosters and radical who person an approved spiritual oregon aesculapian exemption.