New York Giving Out Free Scratch Tickets With COVID Shots At Certain Sites

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- New Yorkers can now get a free scratch-off ticket with a COVID shot when they visit a state-run vaccination site.

Ten sites are participating, including the following locations in our area:

• Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan
• Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn
• York College in Queens
• Bay Eden Senior Center in the Bronx
• Stony Brook University in Stony Brook
• National Guard Armory in Yonkers

The top prize is $5 million.

Other states are offering similar incentives to combat vaccine hesitancy.

In nine states, mostly in the Northeast, at least 70% of adults are partially vaccinated. But in 10 others, mostly in the South, less than half have gotten one does.

Coronavirus cases are at their lowest in nearly a year, largely due to the effectiveness of the vaccines.

COVID VACCINE

• New York State book online here or call 1-833-NYS-4-VAX
• New York City book online here or call 877-VAX-4NYC
• Track NYC vaccinations by zip code
• Nassau County more info here
• Suffolk County more info here
• Westchester County more info here
• New Jersey book online here or call 1-855-568-0545
• Connecticut book online here

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