Covid Vaccine Cash Spurs Call for Study on Clinical Trial Perks

Cash, lottery tickets, and other prizes to galvanize Covid-19 vaccinations underscore the need for more research to understand if and how payments impact other individual decisions to help boost public health, like participating in a clinical trial.

“We’re sort of at a loss in terms of data. We need data on how it works and how well it works,” Christine Grady, bioethics chief in the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, said. It’s further unclear whether offers of payment attract people in generally the same manner or if there are differences among age, gender, or ethnic groups. “We really don’t ...