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study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that vaccine lotteries didn’t appear to make a significant impact. - Public health experts suspect the lotteries did not change people’s underlying beliefs about the vaccines.
- Additionally, many people still face barriers to vaccination.
In an effort to drive up vaccination rates, many cities and states launched vaccine lotteries to entice people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 with a chance to win grand prizes and large sums of money.
Until now, it’s been unclear whether and how those lotteries motivated people to get inoculated.
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By comparing vaccination rates in Ohio — where the Vax-a-Million lottery was announced mid-May — to vaccinated rates across the United States, the researchers concluded that the lotteries were not linked to an increase in vaccinations.
It’s unclear why this may be, but public health experts suspect the lotteries did not change people’s underlying beliefs about the vaccines and that, lottery or not, many people still face barriers to vaccination.
Source: healthline