How did you settle on $200?

“Honestly, that number would never reimburse us fully for that cost,” of paying for workers who had received medical care for Covid-19, he said. “We thought, just in thinking about numbers, what would make sense; what would be enough where, every month, every employee had to write a check for $200? We thought that was a good number.”

Has it worked so far?

“We wouldn’t want it to be so expensive as to be punitive,” he said. “We’ve seen, since we announced this less than a week ago, a five-fold increase per day [of workers receiving vaccines].”

“We went from 11 a day to 55 in one day,” he said of workers receiving vaccines.