Bloomberg featured a study regarding the low effectiveness of financial incentives for vaccination. “Reaching a goal of very high vaccination rates likely requires much stronger policy levers, such as employer rules or government mandates,” wrote the authors, including Mireille Jacobson.
Wall Street Journal featured a study coauthored by Mireille Jacobson on how financial incentives for COVID-19 vaccination may not work.
San Francisco Chronicle featured a study coauthored by Mireille Jacobson on why financial incentives to encourage vaccination may not work. “(T)his is not the road to getting to ‘herd immunity.’ It might be that these small incentives nudge a few people one way or another, but it’s really just not going to get us anywhere near where we hope to get … we’re not nudging our way out of this epidemic,” said Jacobson.
Inverse featured research by Valter Longo on how fasting affects the body and the potential for a fasting-mimicking diet to improve health. “If you fast every day for 21 hours, yes, you might get lots of benefits,” Longo says, “but you’re going to get a compliance of probably less than 1 percent.”
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