What are the odds of winning Kentucky's 'Shot at a Million' vaccine lottery?
Share Shares Copy Link Copy  Hide Transcript Show Transcript  Alright next we'll turn very quickly to um again uh ending our fight against covid itself. Um As of today, as a vaccine update, 2,134,353 Kentucky ins have received at least their first shot of hope that is 2134 353 Woodford and Franklin County tied leading the way at 63% of all their residents vaccinated 61% of Fayette County. Uh good news inside of those numbers is older Kentucky ins continue uh to get vaccinated uh 65 year olds and up 82% of all Kentucky and 65 and up now vaccinated 63% of Kentucky and 50 to 64. And this number is ticked up a little bit um Kentucky and ages 40-49. We are so close to 50% to half of them sitting at 49% adult Kentucky ins. That's 18 and up. We are at almost 60 of that group in Kentucky, vaccinated Kentucky ins 12-17 now, 69,923 vaccinated. The 12-15 which as you know, was just recent, just under 40,000 vaccinated uh to date. And as a reminder In our efforts to encourage more Kentucky is to get vaccinated. We're offering vaccinated Kentucky ins. A shot at $1 million, $1 million. That is, this is for Kentucky in 18 and over three will be randomly chosen in separate drawings to receive $1 million, Kentucky is 12-17 who are not eligible for the million dollars can enter to win a full scholarship to any public Kentucky college university, trade or technical school. There'll be five winners selected in each drawing for a total of 15. The first drawing is two weeks from tomorrow. This means the deadline to enter. The first drawing is 11 59 PM. Two weeks from today. As you see, we've gotten a great response in the sign ups for the sweepstakes itself. 414,584 Kentucky and have signed up for the shot at a million. With 23,080 youths signed up for their shot at a free higher education folks. These are the best odds you're ever gonna get At one in $1 million dollars or winning a free ride um to uh to your higher education. That means those that have not been vaccinated. It is a very compelling reason to get vaccinated. Now my kids aren't eligible, but I will have two kids that will overlap in college for at least three years. And if I had the eligibility to sign this up, you could bet ah that I would now that I just want to briefly touch on yesterday and how I hope it shows how much I trust these vaccines. I got the Moderna vaccine early on. I believe the science and I wanted to show the commonwealth that it was safe. But that's probably expected from a governor. But my wife Brittany, my foundation, my rock throughout this and everything else since we met uh stood next to me. I love her. I believed in it enough to where I recommended to her and she did her own research to get vaccinated On Tuesday. My son will turn 12 and yesterday we took him to get vaccinated. I love Will and lila more than life itself. I'd give my life for them any day of the week, any moment. Uh There's nothing that I wouldn't do for them. And I trust this vaccine so much uh that will win in yesterday. Um, got his first shot. He is doing uh just fine. We got it in his non pitching arm just in case. Um But uh everything is good alright. Also as um an incentive to get vaccinated. One thing I'm excited to see coming back is live music. And if you've got in your shot there is a free ticket waiting for you to some great summer concerts. The troubadour concert series is hosting covid free concerts at the historic car Dome in Georgetown, happening through june 29th. It's where everybody is invited except the virus. The free concert series is brought to you by hybrid spring water and the troubadour concert series. This covid free concert series features artists like George Winston, the Sam Bush band exile and other Grammy award winning musicians. If you're fully vaccinated, I mean it's been two weeks since you've gotten two shots of Pfizer Moderna or one of J and J. You qualify for a free ticket to any or all of these shows at the car dome. If you haven't been vaccinated yet, anyone aged 12 and up can get vaccinated for free at the concert and still you get a free ticket. The vaccines are being administered by Wild Wild Health, which is partnered to help hundreds of Kentucky ins get vaccinated. These are Pfizer only the first and the second Dotes for those vaccinated for less than two weeks and in the process of building full immunity, they can get a rapid free covid test at the concert and thus be able to get in if you're interested held to go to covid free concert dot com to get your ticket. It's great entertainment, visit the site to find out who the entertainers will be and tomorrow night will be american country music singer and legend. Suzy Bogguss, who's who's music I've loved. There's something for everybody in this line  GET LOCAL BREAKING NEWS ALERTS The latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox. Submit Privacy Notice