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The million-dollar question: Do they work?
Public health experts say that while lotteries may nudge some people to get vaccinated, most won t be convinced.
The small chance of winning a big windfall isn t enough to sway the majority of unvaccinated Americans who strongly oppose the vaccine, have safety concerns or don t want their daily lives disrupted by the vaccine s side effects, they say.
“For certain segments of the population, (lotteries) can be useful,” said Robert Bednarczyk, associate professor of global health and epidemiology at Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. But it really comes down to, who are you trying to reach and how can you reach them?
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Ohio s Vax-a-Million drawing didn t increase COVID-19 vaccination rates compared to other states, a new study found.
Ohio did see an initial boost in vaccinations after Gov. Mike DeWine s May 12 vaccine lottery announcement, Boston University School of Medicine researchers acknowledged in a letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
But other states also saw an uptick in first shots among adults, which researchers suggest was a result of children age 12 to 15 becoming eligible to get the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at the same time.
“Our results suggest that state-based lotteries are of limited value in increasing vaccine uptake. Therefore, the resources devoted to vaccine lotteries may be more successfully invested in programs that target underlying reasons for vaccine hesitancy and low vaccine uptake,” author Allan J. Walkey said in a statement.