Towson University Awards COVID-19 Vaccination Raffle Prizes To Nursing Student, Clinician

TOWSON (WJZ) — Two winners of a raffle for Towson University students and unit vaccinated for COVID-19 are, rather fittingly, portion of the combat against the pandemic themselves.

University officials announced Sunday that Kyle Pendergrast, a nursing pupil from Catonsville, and Cynthia Stack, a aesculapian adjunct successful the TU Health Center, won the university’s raffle. Pendergrast, a erstwhile question caregiver studying for a bachelor of subject successful nursing, volition person a $5,000 scholarship. Stack volition person escaped parking for a year.

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All University System of Maryland schools, including Towson, are requiring students, module and unit to beryllium afloat vaccinated by Aug. 9. As of Monday, 92% of module and unit had been vaccinated and 73% of students.

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The University is holding 5 days of random drawings for $1,000 scholarships to beryllium handed retired to immoderate pupil who has gotten astatine slightest 1 dose of COVID-19 vaccine. The University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center held a free, walk-in session connected field Monday.

Last month, Gov. Larry Hogan announced $1 cardinal successful funding for $50,000 assemblage scholarships to beryllium handed retired astatine random to immoderate nonmigratory betwixt 12 and 17 who gets vaccinated.

CBS Baltimore Staff