None of the 19 state-led vaccine lotteries led to increased vaccinations, new CU Denver study finds
This summer, with fear that COVID-19 vaccination rates were insufficient to control the virus, states across the nation began to employ what was then considered a novel tactic for increasing shots in arms—large cash drawings that you could enter by being vaccinated. While these lotteries were a seemingly enticing method, a first-of-its-kind study shows that these efforts, which occurred in 19 different states, did little to move the needle in terms of increasing vaccination rates. Researchers suggest that other methods, such as better messaging surrounding the benefits of vaccination, might have been more effective.