People Fed Pizza as Reward for Receiving Swine Flu Vaccination
December 18th, 2009Via: WXYZ:
The Detroit Health Department is fighting swine flu with pepperoni. When kids return to school after the holiday break, each class has the opportunity to get a free pizza party – if they sign up for the shots.
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The Detroit Health Department has already been working especially hard to get the vaccine into the community.
For instance, today parents attending the Christmas program at the Foreign Language Immersion School on Outer Drive had the chance to get shots for themselves and their children before or after the program.
Mom, Kimberley Wallace said, “This is the easiest for me. This way I don’t have to take them to the doctor’s office, take them out of school or anything so it works out real well.”
But apparently not well enough. So Dr. Davis and his team came up with an innovative idea. They teamed up with Happy’s Pizza. And each class in the city that has a permission slip return rate of 80-percent or more will get a pizza party for the entire class.
Our elementary school, and scouts, were always sending the kids off to bother the neighbors by selling things for fundraisers: cookies, stuffed animals, magazines, bacon bits & spices (seriously), jogathons. They would get you excited by promising a trinket or a pizza party.