Payments ≥$US500 would incentivise 50% of US people uncertain about COVID-19 vaccination.

Although more than 88% of US people say they accept COVID-19 vaccination, 14% say they would only get vaccinated with compensation - payments of at least $US500 would be required to get 50% of these people to accept being vaccinated, according to research published in I Applied Health Economics and Health Policy i . Sixty percent of the participants said they were willing to pay a positive amount for the vaccine; 13.7% said they would only accept free vaccination; 14.1% were willing to take the vaccine only if they were paid; and 12.2% would not accept the vaccine at all. The authors note that data collection for the study was conducted after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency authorisation for the Pfizer-BioNTech (11 December 2020) and Moderna (13 December 2020) vaccines at a time when the USA had what was then the largest number of daily cases and deaths. [Extracted from the article]