Incentives for getting COVID-19 vaccines

Vaccine incentives offered to students, faculty and staff at the University of Georgia are working, and next week, the university will up the ante once again.

UGA is already offering a $20 gift card and specially designed T-shirt to all who get vaccinated through the University Health Center and recently added an incentive to sign up for a chance to win one of 10 $100 gift cards being awarded on four successive Fridays. To date, 20 individuals have won—most of them students.

“It’s a great initiative to motivate others who are not taking the vaccine to take the vaccine,” said Oranti Ahmed Omi, a graduate student majoring in neuroscience. “COVID is going to be here for a long time, so I think better to be safe than sorry. It’s better to get vaccinated and have some protection.”

Beginning next week, UGA will once again bolster vaccine incentives. Starting Wednesday, Sept. 1, any current student, faculty or staff member who has been fully vaccinated (two doses of Pfizer or Moderna or one of Johnson & Johnson)—whether at the University Health Center or elsewhere—can submit their names to be in the running to win a cash prize of $1,000. A total of 100 prizes will be awarded.

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Image: Undergraduate Alicia Mata gets a vaccine from Department of Public Health nurse Tricia Ellis at a Popup Vaccine Clinic at the Tate Student Center. (Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA)