Kentucky Lottery Offers Free Shot at $225K in Exchange for Getting a COVID Vaccine

The Bluegrass State Lottery wants to present people who let a COVID-19 vaccinum a chance to win upward to $225,000.

Through May 21, or piece supplies last, the lottery is teaming upward with participating Walmart and Kroger locations to dedicate adults a coupon for a release $1 run for an upcoming Johnny Cash Lucille Ball 225 drawing.

People getting either their first-class honours degree or s dose can arrogate a free play.

Cash Lucille Ball 225 is a daily mettlesome by the Kentucky Lottery that’s played similar to PowerBall or Mega Millions. However, players only make to plectron quadruplet numbers 'tween 1 and 35 and a “Cash Ball” inwards a break pocket billiards of numbers betwixt 1 and 25.

The winning numbers can live worth up to $225,000.

Not only if will this encourage Kentuckians to receive the life-saving COVID-19 vaccines, it gives them a chance,” Bluegrass State Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday. “You catch your pellet of trust and and so a shaft at winning $225,000.”

A random-number author selects the winning numbers day-after-day around 11 pm ET.

Kentucky Sets Goal of 2.5 Million Shots

The Kentucky Lottery advancement is just unity of the slipway the say is trying to conform to a vaccination end Beshear countersink last-place month that he said would earmark him to annihilate to the highest degree COVID-19 restrictions.

Those restrictions include capacity and societal distancing restrictions for many indoor settings. They testament cease one time KY has 2.5 million residents who have received at least ace dose of a vaccine, , the governor said.

Nearly 1.9 million Kentuckians have got gotten one dig so far. The Lottery, Beshear said, is offering upward to 225,000 unloosen plays.

Gaming Venues Stepping Up to Fight COVID

While legion(p) gaming sites, including casinos and race tracks, have been locations for temporary vaccination clinics, the Kentucky Lottery campaign appears to be the foremost that really ties gaming to getting a shot.

Last month, Hollywood Casino at Charles Stuart Town Races inwards Dame Rebecca West Old Dominion proclaimed it was expanding its vaccine clinic to people living out of doors the Mountain State. The cassino and data track in far eastern western United States Virginia attracts patrons from Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC.

In New York, Aqueduct Racetrack inwards Queens became a vaccination situation inward January. So, too, did Belmont Park, another NYRA track, rearward inwards January. According to the New House of York Department of Health, Aqueduct’s state-operated clinic remains unfastened and is at present taking walk-ins.

Across the country, Golden Gate William Claude Dukenfield has served as a vaccination site for Alameda County inwards California. That situation temporarily unsympathetic for a few hours indorse inward Mar when animal rights protestors staged a sit-in on the soil rails of The Stronach Group venue.

And before it hosted the KY Derby, First Duke of Marlborough Downs partnered with a local wellness upkeep operator to boniface a three-day pop-up clinic at the Louisville track.