Anti-Mandate New Yorkers Protest at the Capitol as Lawmakers Begin Considering New Vaccination Bills

On January 10, 2023, anti-mandate protesters traveled to Albany from NYC and across the state. They gathered in the state capitol to lobby lawmakers and protest existing vaccine mandates and proposed legislation as the new legislative session began and Governor Kathy Hochul delivered her state of the state address.

Protesters lined the exit path as legislators left the chamber where Hochul delivered her address. Some got a friendly reception and stopped to chat with protesters, while proponents of mandates were met with vocal opposition.

21:45: Protesters pursued Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz as he walked to the elevator. Dinowitz has been a strong supporter of vaccine mandates, and is currently sponsoring bills to make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for K-12 and college students, eliminate religious exemptions to vaccine mandates for employment and school, and create a state system to track medical exemptions.

Other bills the protesters were lobbying and demonstrating against include proposals to allow minors to consent to medical procedures without informing parents, create state-level tracking systems for adult vaccinations, mandate influenza vaccines for daycare and K-12 students, require social media networks to create vaccine misinformation reporting mechanisms, require vaccine science instruction to be given to middle and high school students, and require approval by the state Department of Health for medical exemptions to mandatory vaccinations.

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