: 19 states offered million-dollar lotteries to increase COVID vaccination rates — this research says they didn’t work

At the start of this year, demand for COVID-19 vaccines outpaced supply.

But when the tides turned, states dangled million-dollar lottery drawings for newly vaccinated individuals with hopes of increasing vaccination rates.

Ohio pioneered vaccine-tied lotteries in mid-May with its Vax-a-Million campaign, the state’s five-week-long lottery…