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New Jersey offers free beer to residents who get vaccinated in May

IVAN PEREIRA

Mon, May 3, 2021, 5:19 PM

A vaccination card will be the ticket for a free brewski in the Garden State this month.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced a "Shot and a Beer” program Monday that provides a free glass of beer at participating locations to anyone over 21 who gets their first vaccination dose this month. The plan is part of Murphy's multipronged approach to increasing the state's vaccination numbers and reach its goal of 4.7 million residents vaccinated by the end of June.

The program is one of many initiatives taken by city and state governments to get more people vaccinated, and according to a public health expert, they are effective.

"We need that push," Dr. Perry N. Halkitis, dean of the Rutgers School of Public Health, told ABC News. "You have to find a way to motivate people. This is one way to do it."

As of Monday, more than 7.5 million vaccine doses have been administered in New Jersey, and 3.2 million residents -- about 37% of the state's total population -- have been fully vaccinated, according to New Jersey's Health Department. Like most parts of the country, the number of new daily vaccinations has steadily declined over the last few weeks.

MORE: As COVID-19 vaccine demand slips, officials look for new ways to reach more people

As part of the "Shot and a Beer" program, the vaccinated resident can show their vaccination card to 13 participating bars and breweries in the state, and they will be rewarded with one free beer. The bars include the Hackensack Brewing Company, Gaslight Brewery and Restaurant, Battle River Brewing and more.


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  • select-fire

    Waiting on Southern Comfort here in SC.... Rumor has it Mary Jane in Colorado

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  • SCOUT5

    Clever

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  • Rocky Raab

    Saw a TV ad that Budweiser is doing the same thing - a shame it's not beer.

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  • pingjockey

    Back when I was 16, my arm would have looked like a pin cushion.

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  • cbxjeff

    It would take me a lot more than a free beer to get me back to NJ. 😕

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  • SCOUT5
    cbxjeff: 31516853783707/comments/31516844744475

    It would take me a lot more than a free beer to get me back to NJ. 😕

    But if you were there you could sure use one.

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  • jimdeere

    Nothing new. In the old days, local elections, candidates would hand out campaign liquor at the polls.

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  • hillbille

    seems like discrimination to the folks who allready got the vaccine, shouldn't they get a free beer also?????????

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  • Ruger4me

    I'll buy my own and not be a lab rat.

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  • hillbille
    Ruger4me: 31516853783707/comments/31516856333595

    I'll buy my own and not be a lab rat.

    me to Ruger, but for the folks who allready gave in, give em a beer too....... they got their, I got the shot card

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  • select-fire
    Ruger4me: 31516853783707/comments/31516856333595

    I'll buy my own and not be a lab rat.

    Take a lot more than a beer.

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  • Mr. Perfect

    What is wrong with the vaccine that they have to incentivize folks like this? Hmmmmmm?

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  • select-fire

    If folks start dropping like flies 5 yrs from now by taking it... Beer will get cheaper

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  • Brookwood

    Makes me feel like our gov't thinks the vaccine holdouts are uneducated morons.

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  • chiefr

    I'm holding out for a free AR 15.

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  • Brookwood

    Hey Doug, Those vaccines are some strange brew ehh!


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