Uploaded. Can't wait for the one year of free flights. :D

So you win a year's worth of free travel, none of which counts for status or earns miles, after which your existing status (assuming you have any) will drop to 'general member' because of no paid flights for that year.

But I thought that the trip and the experience is what mattered!

But the $275k check portion of the prize can buy a hell of a lot of mileage runs. Easily enough to get to lifetime status after your 1 year of free flights on those 26 vouchers is up. Just make sure you don't blow all of the prize money on paid full fare premium cabin tickets, which would make UA love you but would probably not even get you 200k lifetime miles.

this is what UA states
But UA does not have access or seem to require access to your medical records. Or even actually require you getting vaccinated.

In exchange for easily $50K or much more of travel. And 98+% of MP are General members already and some elites have LT status. So, yes I will take it. Others can pass.

Try UA website.

I am pretty sure that signing an HIPAA waiver form that allows the appropriate entity with your vaccination records to hand them over to UA would be part of the background check

Entered myself and family in the App and got the message that we are entered in the sweepstakes. I'm still trying to figure out where my Vaccination info is displayed in the app or on the web page. Is it hidden except to United employees?

Why when UA does not require vaccination for entry?

Obviously UA wants to avoid the winner for being outed with a fraudulent vaccine card. The Affidavit of Eligibility is probably part of that. While I would understand the HIPAA waiver request, I'm not sure it is part of the plan as it is not mentioned in the T&Cs.

As has been discussed a couple of times in the thread, not one is sure what UA plans to do with this information. I would count on your needing to provide this information at what every destination will accept it, which is rather few at the moment.

It's not required to show proof to enter the contest. Proof is required if you win in order to claim the prize. Meaning, if you submitted fraudulent information, won the prize, and later got vaccinated, that is grounds for revocation of the prize.

From the terms:


A fraudulent claim of having been vaccinated at the time of entry could easily be interpreted as a "disqualifying issue" and UA would be right in revoking the prize, even if the individual later did get vaccinated. And they do ask for your vaccination dose dates.

I have to get PCR tested nearly every week as a work requirement and was hoping that my vaccination records, completed over 2 months ago, would be accessible in a database that would preclude the requirement for such expensive, repetitive testing. No such luck. The official state database is not only not accessible to federal health officials, the CDC, or law enforcement entities, it also contains corrupt information. I tried to get official verification (other than the flimsy cardboard "vaccine passport") from the state for my employers and, not only is there no such functionality available in the state system, there is also no record in their database that I ever got my vaccinations, and the state is now requesting that I get vaccinated again!

In other words, unless something changes real soon, there is no way that a state could confirm or deny that someone had been vaccinated with any degree of certainty.

Same with me

Completely expected. HIPAA prohibits them from releasing this information to third parties unless you authorize it.

As far as that is concerned, it sounds like some people running your state database should be fired. Which state is this?

Nope, that is not explicitly stated
Perhaps but again this is an extrapolated assumption this applies to the vax status
Yes, it could be but the T&Cs neglect to state a need for a HIPAA waiver -- a pretty big oversight
But you are not required to be vaccinated -- and you maintain the right not to provide information --- clearly stated in the T&Cs. That puts a hole in this line of thought.

I suspect the fraudulent comments are more in reference to multiple submissions or not being a US resident. Sweepstakes rules pretty much eliminate most restrictions / requirements on submitting except things like those (that need to be explicitly stated).

I personally thinnk UA should have required the HIPAA waiver but I suspect their lawyers said no

I was trying to authorize access for my employer with a HIPAA waiver and they said that it wasn't possible

I raised quite a stink with my state bureaucracy, and they have my email address, so I won't identify them for fear of reprisal.

In retrospect, I really should've made a date-stamped video of me being vaccinated. It seems to work well against false rental car damage claims and I'd bet that the legal and HR honchos at my employer(s) would've gone for it.