The Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) is offering businesses and churches money in exchange for promoting COVID-19 vaccination despite persistent doubts about the need and safety of the shots.
On Monday, MSDH announced via social media that businesses and faith organizations can receive $1,000 for participating in the state’s Communities Conquering COVID vaccination education program.
“The program will train representatives from barbershops, salons, churches and faith-based organizations as community health advocates to provide vaccination education and materials to their members and clients,” the announcement says. In addition to training, the post says participants will distribute COVID test kits and vaccination material, and help with local vaccination events.
Mississippi has a Republican governor and legislature, but before July, when a federal judge intervened, it was one of just two GOP-led states that did not offer religious exemptions to vaccine mandates. Even after the ruling, MSDH still requires parents to sit through an involved exemption process that involves watching a “vaccine education” video and a discussion with a state health department nurse before exempting their children from school mandates.
Many Americans persist in objecting to the COVID-19 vaccines, which were developed and released under former President Donald Trump’s Operation Warp Speed initiative in a fraction of the time vaccines usually take.
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