Increasingly, states are adopting a whatever-it-takes approach to drive people to vaccination sites.
Fans drink beer during a baseball game at Chicago's Wrigley Field on opening day, April 1.
There is also the question of whether the incentives actually work. “It’s hard for me to believe that someone would be motivated to get vaccinated just so they could get a Krispy Kreme doughnut or two,” Doug Storey, a professor of health communication at Johns Hopkins,Storey suggested that financial incentives could work but stressed the importance of outreach to people who have something “nagging at them,” such as a worry that vaccines are not safe.
“Fun” is usually not a word associated with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, but he was clearly enjoying himself during a recent press conference that had the notorious gym rat eating a burger and fries as he announced that Shake Shack, the wildly popular haute fast food chain, would be offering burgers and fries for the vaccinated.“Mmmm ... vaccination.”
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