EFE.- New York City and popular fast food chain Shake Shack announced Thursday that They will offer free hamburgers and fries to encourage citizens to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
The mayor of the Big Apple, Bill de Blasio, presented the promotion by eating a portion in the middle of a press conference and at a more suitable time for breakfast, in an image that soon circulated in local media and social networks.
“Hmm, vaccination ”, declared De Blasio after taking a bite of a hamburger in his peculiar attempt to tempt New Yorkers to approach one of the points installed throughout the city to administer doses of the serum.
“There are a lot of people who are ready to get vaccinated, they just haven’t. They need a little additional incentive, ”said the mayor, who in recent days has announced several strategies to make it easier for all citizens, New Yorkers and abroad, to get the vaccine.
Within those efforts, Shake Shack, born in New York, will offer during the next days a voucher for a hamburger for those who get vaccinated at one of the mobile points throughout the city.
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For those who have already received the puncture, the restaurant chain offers free fries along with the purchase of a sandwich just by presenting the vaccination card.
Incentives of all kinds to encourage citizens to get vaccinated have become widespread in recent weeks in the United States, as the rate of vaccination has decreased, not due to lack of doses, but due to lack of arms to administer them.
The country has the arduous task of convincing the undecided in a race against time until July 4, Independence Day “of the virus”, in the words of President Joe Biden, when the goal is that 70% of adults have received at least one dose and that some 160 million people are immunized.
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