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COVID-19 vaccines greatly reduce the chance of contracting a severe case of the respiratory disease, and they could soon boost the chance a tiny bit, at least of a massive cash windfall for Illinois residents.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker today hinted the state could soon launch a vaccine lottery program as an incentive to get more people to roll up their sleeves.
A little more than half of Illinois adults are fully immunized, and two-thirds have gotten at least one dose, but the state has averaged only 41,234 shots administered per day over the past week the lowest daily vax rate seen since the end of January, when supply was desperately scarce.