Encouraging vaccination through clever and abstruse incentives

The COVID-19 pandemic kept the world on tenterhooks for several years beginning in 2019. Well over 7 million people had died worldwide by 2023. Although the WHO ended the health emergency in 2023, the dangers of COVID-19 and future pandemics remain. Thanks to modern science, effective vaccines against COVID-19 were available and ready for use in record time. However, the willingness to vaccinate was limited. For this reason, some countries came up with various and sometimes abstruse ideas to increase the willingness of their population to be vaccinated during this difficult time and to get people excited about vaccination. Some of these ideas are presented in this article.