More than one in five members of the NYPD were out sick Thursday as COVID-19 infections continued to spread like wildfire across the city.
The 7,270 NYPD sick calls were the most on any day in 2021, and the largest amount since April of last year, law enforcement sources said. Thursday’s staggering volume of sick calls marked aNearly 2,600 members of the 36,000-member uniformed force had tested positive for the virus in December, according to sources.
Typically, about 3 to 4 percent of NYPD members — or up to 1,500 cops — call in sick on any given day. Those rates had increased during the coronavirus pandemic andDepartment brass were requiring cops who had regularly scheduled days off to work over the New Year’s holiday weekend according to an internal NYPD message sent Tuesday.
Nearly 2,600 members of the uniformed force had tested positive for the virus in December, according to sources.“RDO’s are cancelled for all uniformed members of service” from 12:01 a.m. Friday until 11:59 p.m. Saturday, an internal memo read. The 7-day average of cases in the city was more than 25,000 Thursday, and confirmed cases remained on the uptick as the highly transmissible Omicron variant continued to spread rapidly,
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