The San Diego City Council Tuesday voted to end the city's COVID-19 emergency declaration and a city employee vaccine mandate at the end of February.
Mayor Todd Gloria, City Attorney Mara Elliott and City Councilwoman Marni von Wilpert on Monday released a joint statement proposing to end the emergency declaration — which had been in effect since March 17, 2020, under then-Mayor Kevin Faulconer's administration. Since that date, it has been renewed and extended multiple times by the San Diego City Council.
"We find ourselves in this improved state because, by and large, San Diegans did their part in the fight against the pandemic by getting vaccinated and following public health guidance," the statement added. At the time the mandate was implemented, the COVID-19 case rate in the county for not fully vaccinated residents was three times higher than fully vaccinated residents, with the hospitalization rate for residents not fully vaccinated being six times higher than fully vaccinated residents. The vaccination rate for City of San Diego employees was 80.6%
By March 2022, the vaccination rate for city employees had increased to more than 90%, which allowed the city to accommodate around 790 religious or medical exemptions to its mandatory vaccination policy. City departments accommodated those employees by providing free weekly COVID-19 testing at the workplace. Employees who refused to comply with the weekly testing regimen were subject to termination.
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