A $200,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is funding the cash incentives, enough to lure 20,000 people, Rankin said. The grant does not allow the money to be used for people receiving booster shots, and city workers are not eligible. Right now there arescheduled for the shots-plus-incentive, but that list could grow, Rankin said. The sites and dates are listed on the city health department’s website.
A woman at the clinic Friday, Tasha Mack, was there to get a booster shot, and was disappointed to learn she couldn’t get the bonus. She got her third dose anyway. “We know there is a population of people who are just not going to get it,” he said. “Then there are people on the fringe, in the gray area, who, maybe they need $100, that might get them to do it.”
The vaccination requirement for indoor dining was one of the reasons Walker, of Northeast Philadelphia, got his first shot, he said.
Nobody is going to risk their health for the price of two DVD box sets, if they are still afraid to get the jab.