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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – A Tallahassee high school is offering gift card prizes as an incentive for students and teachers to get vaccinated.
SAIL High School says they are partnering with Neighborhood Medical Center to offer a mobile vaccination clinic this Friday and Saturday morning at the school, located at 2006 Jackson Bluff Road.
“SAIL has had a remarkably low number of positive COVID cases this school year and we’re grateful for the many SAIL students and staff who have already been fully vaccinated,” said Rosanne Wood, member of the Leon County School Board and the SAIL Foundation Board. “But we want to try to get to 100% and hope these prizes are a great motivation toward that goal. In fact, we hope other school foundations and community groups follow our lead and offer prizes to incentivize their constituencies to reach 100% vaccination.”
The school says SAIL students and staff who receive a vaccine through the clinic will receive a $25 gift card to Amazon or Starbucks in hopes of convince those on the fence, to get the vaccine.
“Just hoping that maybe that will move that middle. Probably not the hardcore that don’t want the vaccine but the middle because we so need for people to get the vaccinations,” explained Wood. “We want to keep our kids, our families, our teachers our employees out of the hospital.”
Wood says she is very proud of SAIL for coming up with this innovative idea and hopes it will cause a domino effect for the rest of the district.
Friday’s clinic is for school staff, students and families only and will be open from 7-8 a.m.
Saturday’s clinic will be open to the entire community and will be open from 8 a.m.-12 p.m.
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