North Carolina vaccine lottery prizes include $4M

By Washington Examiner

Published June 11, 2021 8:00pm ET

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North Carolina vaccine lottery prizes include $4M — A lab technician working a bottle containing for COVID-19 vaccine testing at Chula Vaccine Research Center, run by Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 25, 2020. Thai health officials said that scientists in Thailand have had promising results in testing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate on mice, and have begun testing on monkeys. | (Sakchai Lalit/AP)

North Carolina will give away $4 million in cash and cover college tuition for people who get vaccinated against COVID-19, Gov. Roy Cooper announced Thursday.

The giveaway is part of an initiative to motivate North Carolinians to get vaccinated. The money for the vaccine lottery comes from federal coronavirus aid, Cooper said.

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