Free beer, doughnuts and savings bonds: COVID-19 vaccination drive gets creative in U.S.
Places around the U.S. are offering incentives to try to energize the nation s slowing vaccination drive and get Americans to roll up their sleeves from free beer, pot and doughnuts to money toward buying an all-terrain vehicle.
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Posted: Apr 29, 2021 2:52 PM ET | Last Updated: April 29
A man wearing a cannabis-print costume hands out marijuana cigarettes during a Joints for Jabs event, where adults who showed their COVID-19 vaccination cards received a free joint, in New York on April 20.(Mark Lennihan/The Associated Press)
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