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EASTON, Pa. â Northampton County will offer staff members of Gracedale, the county nursing home, $750 each to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
That could cost as much as $490,000 if all 650 employees get the shot. The payment is an incentive. County Executive Lamont McClure said employees cannot be required to get the shots. Lives and livelihoods will be saved by a robust vaccination program, McClure said.
He said the county will use federal CARES Act money to pay the incentive. The county received $27.6 million from the federal government for pandemic relief. It kept some and distributed the rest to nonprofit groups, small businesses, schools and local governments.