Forty daily drawings for $40,000 each and a $400,000 Fourth of July jackpot. Get at least one jab and youâve got a shot.
Marylandâs latest effort to encourage people to get vaccinated will shower cash â a total of $2 million â on top of protection against COVID-19 for those who roll up their sleeves. Any Maryland resident 18 or older who received a coronavirus vaccine shot in the state at any point will be entered automatically to win the prizes, which the Maryland Lottery will pay from its marketing and promotional budget.
âGet your shot for a shot to win,â Gov. Larry Hogan said Thursday while announcing the VaxCash Promotion at a news conference outside the governorâs mansion in Annapolis. Hogan, wearing sunglasses in the late spring heat, was flanked by state Health Secretary Dennis Schrader, Maryland State Lottery and Gaming Control Director Gordon Medenica and a man dressed in a lotto ball costume.
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Forty daily drawings for $40,000 each and a $400,000 Fourth of July jackpot. Get at least one jab, and you’ve got a shot.
Maryland’s latest effort to encourage people to get vaccinated will shower cash a total of $2 million on top of protection against covid-19 for those who roll up their sleeves. Any Maryland resident 18 or older who received a coronavirus vaccine shot in the state at any point will be entered automatically to win the prizes, which the Maryland Lottery will pay from its marketing and promotional budget.
Updated: 4:42 PM EDT May 19, 2021 The old Sears store in the TownMall of Westminster served as a vaccine clinic for youth Wednesday.|| COVID-19 updates | Maryland s latest numbers | Get tested | Vaccine Info ||The Carroll County Health Department partnered with the Maryland Department of Health to set up the clinic.Providers administered around 1,100 vaccine doses to children 12 to 17.The Health Department is offering another clinic for this age group on May 26. Parents can register online here. Maryland Health Secretary Dennis Schrader said the state will continue this type of targeted clinic. We ve got 87% of the 65 and older (vaccinated), which is wonderful. The next challenge though is there are still 124,000 that we re looking for, and we want to find them and offer the vaccine to them, Schrader said.Over the next several weeks, the state will wind down operations at its mass vaccination sites in favor of these smaller clinics.Maryland online vaccination site locator
A line of teens and parents wrapped around a section of the TownMall of Westminster on Wednesday afternoon before doors opened for Carroll County’s first COVID-19 vaccination clinic for 12- to 17-year-olds.