How to check your eligibility for Colorado’s $1M vaccine sweepstakes

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Gov. Jared Polis says if you've received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, you're automatically entered into five drawings for $1 million, but if you're skeptical of being automatically entered, there's a way to check your eligibility.

If you go to this link, you can search for yourself in the Colorado Immunization Information System database, which has information about your current vaccinations beyond COVID-19 as well. That's the information that CDPHE is using to contact whoever wins one of the $1 million drawings.

According to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, all vaccine providers must report all administered vaccines into the Colorado Immunization Information System (CIIS), a lifelong immunization record tracking system created by the Colorado Immunization Registry Act of 2007.

CDPHE says it will randomly assign a number to each eligible person in the CIIS database and then give those numbers to the Colorado Lottery to conduct the drawing. No personal health information will ever be disclosed to Colorado Lottery.

However, some KRDO viewers have reported that they've received a COVID-19 vaccine and didn't find themselves listed in the CIIS database. We've reached out to the state with questions about the discrepancy.

Are you in the running for the $1 million? @CDPHE is pooling eligible vaccinated participants from the CIIS database for the Colorado vaccine lottery where you'll have five chances to win a million dollars. You can see if you are eligible here: https://t.co/4GBPX1MHZY

— Dan Beedie KRDO (@BeedieonTV) May 27, 2021