A few months ago, Karine Lacombe, head of the infectious diseases department at Saint-Antoine hospital in Paris, offered to give money or gift vouchers to encourage hesitant people to get vaccinated.
“It's a solution that is used frequently for other diseases.
When, for example, we want to encourage screening, in particular for populations who are the most reluctant.
It was used for hepatitis C screening,
HIV
screening
… ”
, she argued at the microphone of Jean-Jacques Bourdin.
To encourage anti-Covid vaccination, some have done so.
Greece thus offered 150 euros to 18-25 year olds who were vaccinated.
Another example, the municipality of New York decided in the summer of 2021 to offer $ 100 to any resident receiving their first dose of vaccine, then repeated on December 21 with the same amount promised to anyone receiving a booster dose before. the end of the year.
In France, Karine Lacombe's suggestion had provoked a ...
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