Money Could Motivate Some People to Get a Covid-19 Vaccine, Survey Shows

A quarter of Americans say $100 or less would be enough.

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Economists have suggested paying people to get a Covid-19 vaccine, but there’s never been a survey to find out whether payments would work. Now there is, and the results are … murky.

A Harris Poll conducted Nov. 19-21 asked about 2,000 Americans how much the government should pay if it were to pay people to get a vaccine against the novel coronavirus. Of those, 24% mentioned sums of $100 or less, 16% mentioned higher amounts.