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Cigna Joins Companies Offering Incentives to Vaccinated Workers

  • Insurer to put $200 in benefit accounts of staff getting shots
  • As supply starts to exceed demand, immunization push shifts

    

Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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For months after the first Covid-19 vaccines became available in December, people were willing to wait in line, obsessively refresh booking websites, and drive long distances for the shots.

That’s changing. Now, companies are starting to pay workers to get vaccinated, trying to encourage the hesitant or those who just haven’t had a chance to get the jab.