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The winners will need to receive their second dose to actually received the money.
Newsom hosted the event, standing in front of a Wheel of Fortune-style multi-color spinning wheel, gold curtain and a machine used to randomly draw winners.
Three Los Angeles County residents and one person from Orange County were among the winners.
The pool of 21.5 million eligible residents was initially randomly pared down to 200, then winnowed to 50. The final selection was done using a Bingo-style machine, with 50 numbered balls dropping into the twirling cylinder from which the 15 winners were chosen.
State Sen. Richard Pan, a pediatrician and vaccine advocate, and Claudio Alvarado, a pediatric emergency nurse at UC Davis Medical Center, helped Newsom draw the first winners.