#nyc vaccine for all
UPDATE: The COVID-19 Alert Level in NYC is now high. There is high community spread of COVID-19 and pressure on the health care system is increasing.
At this time, follow these prevention tips:
✅Consider avoiding higher-risk activities (such as crowded indoor get-togethers).
✅Wear a face mask in ALL public indoor settings and crowded outdoor spaces.
✅Limit get-togethers to small numbers of people.
✅Stay up to date: get vaccinated and boosted.
✅Get tested if you have symptoms, were exposed, traveled, or were at a large event.
✅Stay home if sick or recently exposed.
Learn more about NYC’s current COVID Alert Level and what precautions to take.
TRUE: Scientists were able to develop the COVID-19 vaccines quickly because of resources and collaboration. Due to a global collective effort, millions of lives have been saved.
The COVID-19 vaccines followed the same development steps as other vaccines: They were developed and tested in a laboratory and then went through clinical trials closely monitored by the FDA.
Clinical trials involve testing the vaccine in people to see if it is safe and effective. The COVID-19 vaccines were each tested on tens of thousands of people of different genders, ages, races and ethnicities who volunteered to be part of the clinical trials.
Children ages 5 to 11 are now eligible for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine!
Vaccination is the best way to protect your child from COVID-19. With more contagious variants of the virus, more young people are getting COVID-19 and being hospitalized.
Remember: Vaccines are safe, effective and free! You do not need to have health insurance or share your immigration status to get vaccinated.
Visitvaccinefinder.nyc.gov to find a vaccination site near you!
Our latest data show unvaccinated New Yorkers have a risk of death from COVID19 that is 8 times that of vaccinated people.
Protect yourself from hospitalization, long-term health problems and death: Get vaccinated today!
To view all of our COVID-19 data, including vaccine data, visit on.nyc.gov/covid19data.
New Yorkers: It’s time to talk to your friends and family members about COVID-19 vaccines! If your loved ones are not yet vaccinated, use these tips to listen respectfully and share your story:
1️⃣ Start the conversation.
2️⃣Invite people to share any concerns they may have.
3️⃣Acknowledge any concerns or past negative experiences they bring up.
4️⃣Ask if you can share your story or what you know.
5️⃣Provide scientific information.
6️⃣Share your own experience about getting a vaccine.
7️⃣Find common ground by identifying what is important to them and the priorities you share.
8️⃣Offer assistance to people who want to get vaccinated.
You should get vaccinated even if you had COVID-19 and have antibodies. The CDC and other experts recommend getting vaccinated even if you already had COVID-19 since you can get COVID-19 again.
Being fully vaccinated provides stronger and longer-lasting protection than natural immunity alone and helps prevent reinfection. Several recent studies have supported this evidence.
- A new study found that unvaccinated people are more than twice as likely to be infected again with COVID-19 compared to people with prior infections who were fully vaccinated. This tells us that COVID-19 vaccines offer better protection than natural immunity alone, and that these vaccines, even after prior infection, help prevent reinfections.
- This study demonstrated that antibody levels are similar or higher in people who received both doses of a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine compared to people who had COVID-19 and did not receive a vaccine.
- This study showed that antibodies from the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines target a broader range of COVID-19 variants compared to antibodies from COVID-19 infection.
To find a COVID-19 vaccine near you, visit nyc.gov/vaccinefinder or call 877-VAX-4NYC (877-829-4692).
Make your Halloween celebrations safer by getting vaccinated! To be fully vaccinated in time for October 31, get your first dose by:
September 27 for Pfizer
October 17 for Johnson & Johnson
Vaccines are a critical tool in protecting you and your community from severe COVID-19 illness, hospitalization and death. They are proven safe and are now protecting millions of vaccinated New Yorkers from COVID-19.
After you are fully vaccinated (two weeks after your single-dose vaccine or second dose of a two-dose vaccine), you are much less likely to become sick or spread the virus that causes COVID-19.
To find a COVID-19 vaccine near you, visit nyc.gov/vaccinefinder.
Over 5 million New Yorkers have been vaccinated against COVID-19!
Thank you to everyone who has gotten vaccinated so far. Because of you, we are that much closer to ending this pandemic.
If you still need to get vaccinated, it has never been easier—or more important—to get your COVID-19 vaccine. Remember: The delta variant is more contagious, more likely to cause severe illness, more likely to reinfect someone who already had COVID-19 and more likely to infect young people.
To find a vaccination site near you, visit nyc.gov/vaccinefinder.
We monitor reported COVID-19 cases to determine if infections and illness are occurring among people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, also known as vaccine breakthroughs.
Based on this, we know that the COVID-19 vaccines are particularly effective at preventing severe disease. From June 27, 2021 through August 21, 2021, people who were unvaccinated were 7.5 to 10.3 times more likely to be hospitalized than people who were fully vaccinated.
We also know that:
COVID-19 transmission is high in NYC, likely driven by the dominant and highly contagious delta variant.
Unvaccinated people are more likely to get COVID-19. The crude case rate for unvaccinated people has been 2.2 to 3.1 times the rate for fully vaccinated people.
Additionally, between January 17 and August 17, people who are unvaccinated in NYC accounted for:
96.1% of all COVID-19 cases
96.9% of COVID-19 hospitalizations
97.3% of COVID-19 deaths
