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Diamond_Dog

(37,374 posts)
Thu Jun 24, 2021, 03:16 PM Jun 2021

This just defies explanation. [View all]

After Ohio’s 5th and last Vax-A-Million money and scholarship giveaway ....

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The goal of the incentive was to boost vaccination rates at a time when interest was waning in an effort to push the state closer to the 70 percent compliance rate officials estimate is needed to reach herd immunity.

As the lottery comes to an end this week, five million dollars and five full-ride scholarships later, the state's vaccination rate falls far short of that goal, with less than 50 percent of the population inoculated.

https://sports.yahoo.com/ohios-last-vax-million-winner-132000529.html

**** DeWine is calling it a success story, but I think we could have done way better.

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