New York mandates vaccines for health workers – how will it play out?

Some hospitals have experienced staff shortages after new rules went into effect - but the mandate appears to be working

Erie County Medical Center, a hospital in the western New York city of Buffalo, just recorded its highest single-day patient count ever - 553 patients in a facility licensed for 573 beds - but not because of an influx of Covid-19 cases.

Instead, hospital leaders said the caseload is the result of a New York state vaccine mandate - the first statewide vaccinate or terminate" mandate to be implemented in the nation.