California to debate mandating Covid vaccines at all workplaces

Assemblymember Buffy Wicks is introducing the new bill, the fourth piece of legislation to come out of the newly formed “vaccine caucus.” | Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo

California would be the first state to impose Covid-19 vaccine mandates at all workplaces under sweeping new legislation to be unveiled Friday.

The bill from Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) comes as Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to release a statewide pandemic exit strategy signaling the transition to an “endemic” phase of the public health crisis.

“The pathway to endemic, for us to get back to some sense of normalcy, is through vaccines,” Wicks told POLITICO in an exclusive interview.

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