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Although, if you were to compare the number of people who buy lottery tickets and those who don't... Well. There's a lot who don't lol.

Probably more than what both you and I Initially expected.

The state with the largest lottery sales in 2020 was New York, generating approximately 9.74 billion U.S. dollars.

Source.

I suppose this lottery is an incentive

Absolutely, and all the more reason why people will be enticed to get vaccinated.

A chance at winning the lottery, no matter how small, Is better than no chance at all. Moreover, It's not as though anyone's paying for the ticket. That being said, I strongly agree with your Idea (over what's mentioned above) as per below.

They could have done a smaller prize pool with more winners.

Do you know what, I actually spent a little time researching national lottery participation in the UK, and was absolutely staggered by what I found. Although none of the lotto-based websites I found statistics on had direct links to any study/sources, they consistently quoted a number of approximately 70% of the UKs population for participation. Personally, of my social groups and family, I definitively know of only one person who has bought a national lottery ticket, as most of my family don't bother. However, I also read, that my age group had one of the lowest participation rates, which could be what swayed my perception.

So, I think you might be right. It's probably more of an incentive than I initially guessed! Although I didn't research the equivalent data for the US, I suspect it would be not dissimilar given the cultural similarities in our nations.