Get the vax, win a shotgun: US states get creative to encourage vaccination

Governors have tried lotteries, free beer, tickets to theme parks and gift cards, as Biden tries to reach 70% goal by Fourth of July

California Gov. Gavin Newsom holds up a lottery ball at the California Lottery Headquarters on Friday in Sacramento, Calif., while drawing numbers for California's new vaccine incentive program. Picture: Paul Kitagaki Jr./The Sacramento Bee via AP

First it was a lottery to win $1m in Ohio. Then another lottery was set up in West Virginia.

In Illinois people could get free tickets to the Six Flags amusement park.