KEY POINTS
  • President Joe Biden on Thursday called on state and local officials to offer residents $100 cash payments as an incentive to receive a Covid-19 vaccine.
  • The latest vaccine push comes as coronavirus cases in the U.S. begin to spike once again, with the highly contagious delta variant fueling infection rates.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the Mack-Lehigh Valley Operations Manufacturing Facility in Macungie, Pensylvania, U.S., July 28, 2021.

President Joe Biden on Thursday called on state and local officials to offer residents $100 cash payments as an incentive to receive a Covid-19 vaccine, his administration's latest push to get Americans vaccinated as the highly contagious delta variant spreads.

During a speech Thursday afternoon from the White House, Biden cited research from the University of California, Los Angeles in which roughly one-third of unvaccinated individuals said a cash payment would make them more likely to get a shot, according to details of the plan released by the administration.