Philadelphia provides additional incentives for residents to get the COVID-19 vaccine in the form of a chance to win a cash prize of up to $50,000.

Announced in the city Philadelphia Vax Lucky Draw Monday, this will include three paintings June 21, July 6, and July 19. In each draw, two Philadelphia residents will win $50,000, four will win $5,000, and the other six will win $1,000. The total bonus for this coronavirus vaccination reward program is US$400,000.

To be eligible, a person must have a current Philadelphia address, be at least 18 years old, and be vaccinated against COVID-19 at least once before each draw.

Health department data It shows that approximately 64.7% of Philadelphia residents have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and 52% have been fully vaccinated.

The lottery is designed to specifically encourage people living in communities with the lowest vaccination rates to get vaccinated by providing these residents with a better chance of winning.For the first draw on June 21st, people living in the 19126 postal code will have an increased chance of receiving a cash prize—approximately The chance of winning is increased by 100 times City officials say there are more people than those who live outside the postcode.

People will be entered into the drawing in one of three ways: City officials will use the Philadelphia residents database to automatically enter everyone who meets the eligibility requirements into the database. Since the database may contain errors, duplicate records or incompleteness, officials said there are other ways to ensure participation.

the first is Register online at phillyvaxsweepstakes.com, Available 24 hours a day. Residents need to provide their name, mailing address, phone number and email address. The registration form is available in English and Spanish.

People can dial (877)-642-5666 between 8 am and 7 pm to register. The system will prompt the caller to leave a message, including their name, mailing address, and phone number.

And residents can Register for the vaccination sweepstakes by sending a text message “Phillyvax” to (215) 608-9799.

Officials said that using online forms, calling or texting to confirm a person’s entries in all three paintings, duplicate entries will only be counted once.

The Philadelphia Vax lottery is Efforts to increase the number of urban residents receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.TonThe city is working with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania on mapping.

Prizes are provided by the Wharton School of Business; Penn’s Behavior Change for Good Initiative; University of Pennsylvania Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics; and the Influenza Laboratory.

Here is how the city will determine which zip code residents will have a better chance:

• In each of the three sweepstakes, a postal code will be randomly selected from Philadelphia’s 20 postal codes with the lowest inoculation rate as of May 27.

• Half of the winners in each award category will be drawn from this selected zip code, while the other half will be drawn from the entire Philadelphia.

• The zip code selected in each painting will be publicly announced on Philadelphia’s website and the city’s social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram) approximately two weeks ago, creating additional incentives for residents of that zip code if they return No vaccinations. The selected postal code for the first picture is 19126, which includes parts of East Oak Lane and West Oak Lane.

• No postal code can be a selected postal code more than once, which means there will be three different selected Philadelphia postal codes in total.

On Monday, Wharton Professor Katie Milkman explained that the raffle was designed to use insights from behavioral science. Participation in the plan and its impact on vaccination rates, especially in postal codes with low vaccination rates, will be compared with surrounding counties to better understand how communities accept public health incentives.

There is an interesting twist.

“In our sweepstakes, we also used what behavioral scientists call the’regret lottery’, which means you may find that as long as you get vaccinated, you can win,” Milkman said in a press release on Monday. Explained at the meeting. “Knowing that this is a possibility would be very motivated. Imagine if you received that call and realized that if you were vaccinated, you would win $50,000 with regret.

The decision to hold a lottery event was made at a time when the demand for vaccines in the city was declining. Philadelphia and FEMA recently closed large-scale vaccination sites in Central City and North Philadelphia, although there is still ample supply of vaccines in community clinics and pharmacies, and they are more readily available than ever.

The Black Doctors COVID-19 Alliance will work with the city and the Wharton School of Business to help promote the Philadelphia Vax sweepstakes.

“We are very familiar with priority postal codes because we have provided accessible and free testing and vaccinations in these communities since April 2020,” said Dr. Ala Stanford, head of BDCC. “The program is a way to help communities that are disproportionately affected by the coronavirus and have fewer testing sites and vaccination points in their communities. We will continue to provide all three vaccines, no appointments, no appointments, and weekly vaccines. Vaccination is used to provide community service clinics and home vaccinations for our residents at home. We will promote the lucky draw to all Philadelphia residents.”