“ “When the Vax-A-Million thing started I immediately went down there and got it.” ” Getting vaccinated against COVID-19 can really pay off. Ohio resident Jonathan Carlyle is the second winner of the state’s Vax-A-Million lottery, an incentive designed to give the state’s vaccination rate a boost by offering multiple million-dollar prizes and full scholarships to adults and teens, respectively, who get the Pfizer PFE, +0.46%, Moderna MRNA, +1.89% or Johnson & Johnson JNJ, -0.10% jabs. And a shot at a million bucks is what finally convinced Carlyle, a 40-year-old father and Amazon AMZN, -1.45% delivery driver living in Toledo, to get his COVID shot. His sister had been pushing him to get vaccinated after she and her husband developed the coronavirus. And his brother-in-law’s father died from COVID-19. So while Carlyle was leaning toward getting the vaccine, he kept putting it off. “I kept hemming and hawing about it,…
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