Calls to winners of vaccine lottery’s second round start Wednesday morning Graham Johnson
More than 250 people will start getting calls, emails and text messages on Wednesday, letting them know they’ve won a prize in the second round of the state’s vaccine lottery.
Tuesday morning, the lottery drew numbers that health officials match with names in the vaccine database.
Winners will need to claim their prize within 72 hours.
Last week during the first round, 103 of 249 prizes went unclaimed.
KIRO 7 asked Washington’s Lottery Director Marcus Glasper if that suggests a fundamental problem.
“I wouldn’t say so, I think with the fast rate with which this promotion is happening, we had to set some rules around it,” Glasper said.
The state Department of Health says there have been over 406,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in Washington, and 5,785 people have died from the virus statewide.
Gov. Jay Inslee today announced a suite of new incentives to help encourage unvaccinated Washingtonians to get the COVID shot. The Washington State Lottery will be conducting a “Shot of a Lifetime”…
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