White House offers new tax credit to help spur vaccinations

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Source: AP

WASHINGTON — The White House is trying to overcome diminishing demand for COVID-19 shots by offering businesses a tax incentive to give employees paid leave to get vaccinated. The move comes as the United States is set to meet President Joe Biden's goal of administering 200 million coronavirus doses in his first 100 days in office.

With more than 50% of adults at least partially vaccinated and roughly 28 million vaccine doses being delivered each week, demand has eclipsed supply as the constraining factor to vaccinations in much of the country.

Over the last week, the pace of inoculation in the U.S. has slowed slightly. That is partly a reflection of disruptions from the "pause" in administration of the Johnson & Johnson shot for a safety review, but also of softening interest for vaccines in many places even as eligibility has been opened to all those older than 16.

As the vaccination program progresses, the administration believes it will only get more difficult to sustain the current pace of about 3 million shots per day. Roughly 130 million Americans have yet to receive one dose.

Read more: https://www.startribune.com/white-house-offers-new-tax-credit-to-help-spur-vaccinations/600048354/

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. Yeah

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[AZSkiffyGeek]

2. My company announced a $100 incentive to all employees and an onsite vax clinic

They've also reexamined the necessity of in-office work. It's refreshing to see a company take these things seriously.

[tclambert]

3. Okay, if you have to pay people to get vaccinated, go ahead and do it.

Maybe some anti-vaxxers will be pro-money enough to do the right thing if they get bribed. I'm worried we may not get enough people vaccinated to reach herd immunity because of herd stupidity.

We will reach herd immunity eventually, but if anti-vaxxers have their way, we will reach it through tens of millions more Americans contracting the disease.

I just checked the CDC numbers, and at the current fatality rate, if we had let COVID "wash over" the country, we would have ended up with over 5 million Americans dead of the disease.