Maryland Casinos Offer Slots, Tables, Sports Betting, and COVID-19 Boosters

Maryland casinos latterly expanded their gaming trading operations with the introduction of sports betting. But that isn’t all that’s new at the half dozen casinos.

Last week, the state’s casinos began offering guests on-site COVID-19 booster dose shots. The vax initiative is part of Governor Larry Hogan’s (R) booster dose action plan.

MGM National Harbor, Live! Casino & Hotel, Horseshoe Baltimore, Ocean Downs, Rocky Gap Resort, and Hollywood Perryville apiece experience vax clinics on property. William Benjamin Hogan says getting a booster — aka, a tertiary dose of a COVID-19 vaccinum — is the best bet a gambler can pee patch at ane of the gaming venues.

Getting a booster amplifier jibe is a safe wager on your health, and millions of Marylanders feature already stepped up to capture one,” said Hogan. “These clinics are another path to acquire more vaccines to the community, and i require to thank our casinos crosswise the body politic for beingness such great community partners.”

Live! Casino, which is operated by Baltimore-based Cordish Companies, has long been doing its constituent inwards making COVID-19 vaccines more widely available. The Anne Arundel cassino was i of the 1st commercial-grade casinos inwards the nation to undecided an on-site vaccination clinic when it did so inwards Jan of 2021.

Boosting Booster Rates

Maryland is nursing home to a small more than sise gazillion people. The in style(p) wellness information shows that nearly 74% of the universe is considered to the full vaccinated — or receiving at least 2 COVID-19 vaccine doses. Eighty-five percent of the population has received at least unity dose.

That ranks Maryland inward the upper side 10 of the 50 states inwards terms of vaccination. William Benjamin Hogan nonetheless wants more shots in arms.

Along with the cassino vax clinics, William Benjamin Hogan has lot apart an additional $2 zillion in government activity monetary resource for a promotional material running through and through the Free State Lottery. Anyone who receives a recall dose at a state-approved location can buoy participate into a random weekly drawing to win hard currency prizes.

Each calendar week at present through and through May 3, the MD Lottery testament get out a single figure and mitt the lucky winner $50,000. The publicity — dubbed VaxCash 2.0 — began in conclusion calendar week with a $500,000 winner existence drawn. VaxCash 2.0 follows the original VaxCash drawing promotion held finally year. It also paid out $2 meg inwards winnings to Marylanders who got vaccinated.

Last week’s winning recipient, drawing officials revealed, is a occupant of Dundalk. To live eligible to win, the soul receiving a booster station must live 18 or older, a Free State resident, and hold received all of their COVID-19 shots (primary doses and booster) inward the nation of Maryland.

VaxCash 2.0 is circle to resolve with a life-changing $1 zillion award drawing on May 3.

By the Numbers: COVID-19 Shots

Hogan’s business office historied endure month the country administering its deuce millionth COVID-19 booster station shot. As of the final stage of January, the Old Line State Department of Health says to a greater extent than 11 1000000 coronavirus vaccine shots feature been dispensed into arms.

More than 95% of the state’s grownup universe has reportedly received at least ace dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Though the efficacy of vaccines slowing the spread of the coronavirus continues to be debated, Hogan flaunted his state’s luxuriously vaccination rate as a cause for the infuse declination inwards recent positivism rates.

“Getting a lifter crack is the single most of import thing you put up ut to protect yourself, your family, and your fellow Marylanders from this virus and its variants,” the governor concluded.