Vaccine incentives offered at local level as relying on 'common sense' fails Alabama Alabama trails every other state with only 34 percent of residents fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Vaccine incentives are being implemented at the local level in Alabama after Governor Kay Ivey dismissed the idea. In this photo, a sign welcomes drivers over the border into Alabama.The Northeastern Alabama city of Gadsden started offering a $100 cash incentive for residents who get vaccinated. The deal started on July 19 and will remain in effect through October 15. In the first six days with this incentive in place, 94 people in the city got shots, a small but meaningful improvement.
"That's a really good number," Deborah Gaither, director of the Gadsden Etowah County Emergency Management Agency, said on Tuesday."Some of our pharmacies stated they haven't given a vaccine in weeks...We're at the point now that we've got to do whatever it takes to get people vaccinated." Gadsden officials have said that almost all recent COVID-19 hospitalizations have been unvaccinated patients,Alabama's Auburn University is taking things a step further. Students who are fully vaccinated by the fall semester will receive"improved parking, free meals, $1,000 scholarships, priority class registration and lunch for four with the president.
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