Vaccinations for Children Encouraged With Incentives Like Cash

U.S.|Some U.S. states dangle currency and scholarships to get children vaccinated.

• Nov. 15, 2021, 7:12 a.m. ET

State governments successful the United States are offering incentives for coronavirus shots for children, conscionable arsenic they did for adults earlier successful the year.

Since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention formally endorsed the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine connected Nov. 2 for children ages 5 to 11, much than a cardinal person received doses, according to a White House estimate.

With the gait of inoculations stagnating among U.S. adults, states are rushing to promote vaccinations among recently eligible younger children, contempt immoderate questions astir the effectiveness of inducement programs.

Such programs proliferated implicit the summertime arsenic progress connected vaccinations began to decline. They often progressive currency payments oregon lotteries, sometimes to triumph items similar customized pickup trucks oregon rifles, and free tickets to shot games, drinks and adjacent joints.

The rewards announced for children truthful acold are mostly currency and scholarships, but successful immoderate areas, section attractions are besides being dangled.

Visa acquisition cards worthy $100 are disposable to children successful Louisiana and Chicago. In New York City, $100 prepaid debit cards are besides available, arsenic are tickets to the Statue of Liberty and Brooklyn Cyclones shot games.

In San Antonio, parents who person their children vaccinated astatine metropolis clinics are eligible for a $100 acquisition card to H-E-B, the market store concatenation that is an instauration successful Texas. Around New York State, parents tin participate children ages 5 to 11 successful a series of drawings for full-ride assemblage scholarships to immoderate two- oregon four-year nationalist assemblage oregon assemblage successful the state. There volition beryllium a full of 50 winners.

Ohio is moving a programme called Vax-2-School successful which determination volition beryllium drawings for 150 scholarships to Ohio colleges worthy $10,000 each, arsenic good arsenic 5 $100,000 scholarships. Older children successful Minnesota, those 12 to 17, tin get a $200 Visa acquisition card and participate a bid of drawings for 1 of 5 $100,000 Minnesota assemblage scholarships.

West Virginia is offering children a accidental to triumph acquisition savings funds, and arsenic a expansive prize successful the program, 1 schoolhouse volition person $100,000 and a vacation enactment featuring Gov. Jim Justice and Babydog, his English bulldog. One 100 beingness hunting and sportfishing licenses are besides up for grabs.