GREENSBORO, N.C. — By Wednesday, you could be counting your cash as the next million-dollar vaccine lottery winner in North Carolina. The drawing is on July 7, 2021.
The first winner, Shelly, is from Winston-Salem. She was only entered in once because she got her vaccine shots in early Spring. She got a phone call and an email to alert her she won. That's key because if you win, but the lottery can't get a hold of you, you’ll miss out.
We've spent a lot of time at WFMY News 2 telling you to make sure your contact information is correct. The first place to check is to go to the NC DHHS vaccine portal. If you don't have a login with the portal, there are other ways to check.
If you got the vaccine at a pharmacy, you would call the pharmacy. If you got it from a site a county health department was in charge of, you would call them.
But here's the thing, when you call, you're not asking, ‘Am I on the lottery list?’ They'll tell you they don’t know because those entities aren’t in charge of getting your info to the state. The state aggregates it all.
What you want to do is simply call tell them ‘you want to confirm your contact information is correct,’ and have them read back your phone number and email address. That's it.
The Guilford County Health department communications manager said:
People may call to verify whether or not the Guilford County Health division has their correct information in CVMS, but we cannot confirm if the state has their names included for the lottery pool.
The state aggregates the information into their systems, the pharmacies and health departments don't do that.