The CDC insists that "the benefits of vaccination exceed the risks for everyone." It has been reported that the risk of an individual over 20 contracting COVID is a mere 0.089%, and is furhter reduced when young people are included.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul agreed and said that all New Yorkers six months and older should get the new and improved COVID vaccine. She said, "It is literally a new vaccine, it is not a booster shot, it is not an enhancer. It is a new vaccine designed to attack the new variants… This is a new vaccine built specifically to match the circulating strains. 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 added, "Tell everybody don't rely on the fact that you had a vaccine in the past, it will not help you this time around," she said. "Even for healthy adults, Covid is serious, you don't want to get it."