Get the Jab and Win $10M: Think Tank Proposes Lottery to Speed Up Vaccination

A St John Ambulance staff member takes the temperature of a client arriving at a COVID-19 Vaccination Centre in the CBD in Sydney, Australia on July 19, 2021. Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images

The Grattan Institute has released new modelling showing that Australia can safely “live with COVID” once 80 percent of the population is vaccinated.

However, to reach this goal, the think tank is proposing a suite of measures—including a national lottery—to incentivise Australians to take the jab.