One-third of New York hospital workers are unvaccinated according to official ...

Nearly one-third of employees at New York City hospitals have still not gotten COVID-19 vaccines, city data show.

Figures from the state Health Department reveal only 70 percent have completed their vaccine series since the shots were rolled out in December 2020.

Of the five boroughs, Manhattan has the highest percentage of vaccinated workers with 76 percent having received their shots. 

Queens has fared second best with more than two-thirds of health care workers, or 67 percent, being vaccinated.

However, almost 40 percent of hospital staff in the remaining three boroughs have either refused the COVID-19 vaccine or not gotten it yet.

Through July 14,  61 percent of workers have been vaccinated in the Bronx, 62 percent in Brooklyn (Kings County) and 64 percent in Staten Island (Richmond County).

Currently in New York City, at least 69 percent of cases of active COVID cases are of the highly contagious Delta variant. 

Health care workers were among the first people to have the vaccine made available to them in the state back in December 2020. 

Just one hospital in the state, NYPresbyterian-Health, has set a requirement for all employees to get vaccinated - giving them until September 1.

According to state data, nearly 74 percent of adults in New York state and 70 percent of adults in the city have received at least one shot. 

This means that health care workers in the state are meeting the city average, but falling behind the rest of the state.

Across the state, 74 percent of health care workers are vaccinated.

'It is distressing that so many health care workers are not getting vaccinated,' Richard Gottfried, Health Committee Chairman and representative of Manhattan in the state assembly, told the New York Post.

'It's important to protect themselves, to protect their patients, and

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