TORONTO --
Residents of the Tandridge Crescent community walked into their local school Monday—and emerged with a shot of Pfizer in their arm and a DoorDash gift card in their hand.
“Twenty-five dollars, that’s a lot of money,” said one young man, vowing to order Popeye’s chicken with the gift card he received as a vaccination incentive.
The so-called micro-clinic was set up at Braeburn Junior School as part of the city’s Home Stretch Vaccine Push campaign, which is targeting specific neighbourhoods with low immunization rates.
The northwest corner of Toronto is lagging behind the city’s vaccination averages, with 59 per cent of residents partially-vaccinated and only 36 per cent fully-vaccinated. City-wide, 60 per cent of adults have received two doses.