N.Y. to Trade Lottery Tickets for Vaccinations: Virus Update
Bloomberg
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(Bloomberg) -- New York state will offer as a vaccine incentive $20 scratch-off lottery tickets, with a maximum payout of $5 million. New York City has passed 4 million first doses.
U.S. health leaders’ move to relax nationwide rules on masks for fully vaccinated people has spurred “understandable confusion,” said Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease doctor. Unvaccinated people should continue to wear masks in public, he said.
Moderna Inc. has begun exporting U.S.-produced Covid-19 vaccines to other countries, a key step as U.S. vaccine supply begins to be shipped abroad.