Many countries around the world are offering benefits to encourage people to get vaccinated.
These incentives are built on the likelihood people who are hesitant, unmotivated or face barriers to getting vaccinated will embrace vaccination if they receive personal benefits which outweigh any perceived downsides to getting the vaccine, or upsides to not getting it.
Australia would do well to consider introducing some incentives. But they shouldn’t be blanket incentives they should be part of a larger set of strategies and need to be tailored and targeted to particular groups.
From cash to cows and everything in between
Employers, service providers, and governments in the United States have offered a range of incentives.
Four new COVID-19 cases have been uncovered among a family in Melbourne s north.
Health Minister Martin Foley confirmed two more people had returned positive coronavirus test results, adding to the two other cases revealed earlier on Monday.
Health authorities were alerted to the cluster after a Whittlesea man presented for testing on Sunday.
He and an asymptomatic male relative from a separate household both tested positive.
A woman and young child in the family of the Whittlesea man have also been confirmed as COVID positive.
Mr Foley said there was no indication the COVID-positive family members were linked to any exposure sites visited by a Victorian man who contracted coronavirus in hotel quarantine in South Australia.
Australia's chief medical officer will not rule out a lottery or other novelty incentives to drive the nation's COVID-19 vaccination rate. The US state of Ohio has launched a $US1 million lottery, open to vaccinated Americans, in an attempt to boost vaccination rates.
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