NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams signaled Wednesday he may soon modify the city’s pandemic protocols so that unvaccinated professional athletes in the Big Apple can play home games again, opening the door to a major policy shift as the start of baseball season looms less than a month away.
“We are going to continue to peel back,” Adams said at an unrelated press conference in Queens when asked how much longer he plans to block unvaccinated players on city sports teams from playing at their home stadiums.
Still, Adams — who rescinded the city’s Key2NYC vaccine mandate for indoor activities like dining last week — stressed he won’t be influenced by concerns from individual players or teams.
