Feeling lucky?
New Yorkers are being offered an extra incentive to go get the COVID-19 vaccine at select locations.
Between Monday, May 24, and Friday, May 28, state residents who get vaccinated at 10 sites will be provided free lottery scratch-off tickets to anyone 18 and older.
The tickets, sold by retailers across the state for $20 each, have a grand prize of $5 million.
Anyone receiving a vaccine will be getting the one-dose Johnson & Johnson shot, which will not require them to return to get a second dose.
Sites participating in the scratch-off lottery ticket giveaway include:
New York City
Bay Eden Senior Center on East 229th Street in the Bronx;
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A mass vaccination site run that will be overseen by the Chautauqua County Health Department is coming to the State University of New York at Fredonia. On Wednesday afternoon, the university announced it has entered into an agreement with the Health Department to utilize the Ice Arena complex in Steele Hall when COVID-19 vaccine becomes available.
There is no timeline as of yet for the vaccinations to occur.
“SUNY Fredonia is committed to being good partners with our surrounding community,” said Fredonia President Stephen H. Kolison Jr. “As I have indicated, public institutions of higher education must be of, and for, the communities in which they operate to remain highly relevant. This agreement is a manifestation of the seriousness we bring to our role in this community. In these unprecedented times, collaboration is key to moving us beyond this terrible pandemic.”