Austin Public Health is offering $50 gift cards as an incentive to get COVID shots.
will be eligible to receive a $50 Visa gift card, the agency said Monday.
APH said it hopes this incentive will be helpful for people who would have to take unpaid time off work in order to get vaccinated. The agency also noted that the number of people seeking vaccines has stagnated. As of March 1, it said, only 38% of Austin-Travis County residents had received a booster shot. Additionally, nearly 60% of Black residents had not received any COVID-19 vaccine, compared to around 40% of Hispanic residents and 37% of white residents. Vaccination rates are lowest among young children between 6 months and 4 years old; just 10% of them have received a COVID vaccine.
According to APH, there’s good reason to take care of any outstanding shots as soon as possible. The Biden administration announced plans earlier this year to let the federal public health emergency for COVID-19 expire on May 11. Access to free vaccines is not directly tied to the public health emergency declaration, but to the federal government’s purchase of vaccines. Absent additional funding from Congress to replenish the federal stockpile of vaccines, the administration has said it anticipates transitioning them to the
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