De Blasio offers $100 incentive for New Yorkers who get COVID vaccine

Starting Friday, New Yorkers who receive their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at a city-run site will be given $100 — the latest desperate measure in City Hall’s ramped-up effort to get more residents inoculated as a highly contagious coronavirus variant spreads, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday.

“It does not get better than that,” de Blasio said during his daily remote press briefing of the $100 reward for agreeing to a jab. “Incentives help immensely,” the mayor said. “I think it’s going to be very, very appealing to New Yorkers.”