CLEVELAND — The result of the first of five Vax-a-Million drawings was live on Wednesday at 7:29 p.m. You can watch the result and find out who the first $1 million winner was in the video player on this story. Watch next week's announcement on News 5 Cleveland, the official partner station of the Ohio Lottery.
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News 5 also streamed the announcement on our Facebook page, the News 5 mobile app and the News 5 channel on Roku, Amazon Fire and other connected devices.
The Vax-a-Million program, which is being run by the Ohio Lottery and the Ohio Department of Health, is awarding one vaccinated adult Ohio resident with $1 million each Wednesday for the next five weeks. The names of the winners will be announced live on-air during a special Ohio Lottery broadcast on News 5 Cleveland at 7:29 p.m. each Wednesday.
The winner of a full-ride scholarship to an Ohio university was also announced Wednesday night; that winner is drawn from a pool of vaccinated Ohioans aged 12-17.
Based on the number of Ohioans who registered for the first drawing, the odds of winning the $1 million were one in 2,758,470, and the odds of winning the scholarship were one in 104,368, according to ODH.
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To be eligible to win either drawing, you must have received at least the first dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine — or the single dose of the Johnson & Johnson — and you must have registered at ohiovaxamillion.com or by calling 1-833-4-ASK-ODH (1-833-427-5634). If you did not register for the first drawing, you can still register to be eligible for the remaining four, and you need only register once.
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