New York City’s youngest schoolkids can ditch their face coverings in educational and other early childcare settings Monday for the first time in well more than two years as the latest COVID threat continues to recede across the five boroughs.
Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, first announced late last week that the core COVID precaution — and one of the city’s last-standing pandemic mandates — would turn optional for kids ages 2 to 4, who are not yet eligible for vaccination, as of Monday.
The mayor’s words came minutes after his health commissioner, Dr. Ashwin Vasan, sought to assure New Yorkers in a lengthy Twitter thread that the
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