Equinox and SoulCycle say they'll require ALL customers and staff get COVID shots - joining Facebook, Google, and Walt Disney Co. as Indian Delta variant rages nationwide
Equinox and its subsidiary SoulCycle will require customers and staff to show proof of vaccination if they want access to its gyms and studios.
The company announced the new policy, which will initially be implemented at its New York City locations next month, in an email it sent to members on Monday.
Equinox joins scores of other big-name U.S. companies that will require their employees to get COVID vaccinations before returning for in-person work.
Facebook and Google last week joined Morgan Stanley and Saks Fifth Avenue in announcing the rules as the Indian 'Delta' variant threatens to derail the economy's reopening.
Equinox said in the email that it conducted a survey of its members and found that 96 percent of them have already been vaccinated against COVID-19.
Equinox and its subsidiary SoulCycle will require customers and staff to show proof of vaccination if they want access to the gyms and studios beginning next month. The image above from last year shows the Equinox location on Manhattan's West Side
Instructor Janet Fitzgerald leads a class at SoulCycle in New York in this 2011 file photo. SoulCycle operates a majority of its locations in the New York metropolitan area
The company announced the new policy, which will initially be implemented at its New York City locations, in an email it sent to its members on Monday
The survey also found that 89 percent of employees reported being vaccinated.
According to the company, an ‘overwhelming majority’ of its customers want mandatory vaccinations so that they could have peace of mind when entering gyms and riding studios.
'We have a responsibility to take bold action and respond to changing circumstances with urgency,' said Equinox Group Executive Chairman Harvey Spevak.
'We encourage other leading brands to join us in this effort to best protect our communities.'
Equinox made the announcement on the same day New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged private businesses in the state, including bars, restaurants and gyms, to require customers to be vaccinated in order to receive service.
Equinox operates more than 100 fitness clubs around the world. Forty of them are located in New York.
Most of the company’s SoulCycle locations are also in the city and surrounding suburbs.
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