"It doesn't matter if you've already been vaccinated, take no comfort in that, thank you for getting vaccinated in the past but that is not protecting you today," she claims.

"We've done this since March 2020, no reason to stop now. Don't think about just yourself," she adds.

New York Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul urged citizens to receive a new round of COVID-19 vaccines, claiming that any jabs they've taken in the past "won't help you this time around."

"Tell everybody don't rely on the fact that you had a vaccine in the past, it will not help you this time around," Hochul said Wednesday.