This stimulus plan would pay you $1,500 for getting the COVID-19 vaccine

[Andy Meek]

• A new stimulus bill proposal calls for linking the issuance of new stimulus checks to whether or not people get vaccinated for COVID-19.
• The stimulus proposal from former congressman John Delaney suggests paying people $1,500 in exchange for getting a COVID-19 vaccination.
• The latest data from Johns Hopkins University shows that more than 276,000 COVID-19 deaths have been reported so far.

Two of the most pressing issues facing US leaders at the moment involve the national economy (specifically, the passage of a new stimulus bill that possibly includes another round of stimulus checks) and public health (getting as many people vaccinated for COVID-19 as safely and as quickly as possible).

On the surface, those twin ambitions might sound disconnected from each other. But, increasingly, there's talk among national lawmakers about linking them together, using the one to drive adoption of the other. We mentioned just a few days ago that this idea of paying people to get vaccinated for COVID-19 has picked up support from people like former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, as well as N. Gregory Mankiw, who was a top economic advisor to President George W. Bush. And now, someone else has upped the ante. Whereas some of the talk along these lines had been to give people $1,000 for taking the COVID vaccine, entrepreneur John Delaney, a former Democratic congressman from Maryland who also ran for president this year, thinks we should pay people at least $1,500 for getting vaccinated.

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