NYC vaccine campaign surges 40 percent amid mandates, new incentives

Sometimes it takes a carrot — and a stick!

The Big Apple’s vaccination campaign has surged 40 percent after Mayor Bill de Blasio offered $100 gift cards for shots and ordered city employees to get vaccinated or face weekly testing, a Post analysis of city data shows. At least 79,931 New Yorkers got their first shots of the coronavirus vaccine over the most recent week, which ended Saturday, according to preliminary tallies from the city’s Health Department.