AMERICAN DRIVE-IN VACCINATION 16 SECONDS PER INJECTION

AMERICAN DRIVE-IN VACCINATION 16 SECONDS PER INJECTION

Louisville have vaccinated their population at 16 seconds per injection reported Adewale Troutman, the regional public health director speaking at the international swine flu conference in Washington, DC. BMJ 2009;339:b3462

The metropolitan public health department last year offered free seasonal flu jabs at the empty county fairground, a massive complex with good road transportation in the highly car dependent region. The complex has a single entry point to the parking areas, with tollbooths, which is where they set up nine inoculation stations, injecting at peak 1000 flu jabs in 40 minutes.

Hundreds of cars were lined up at the appointed hour. Health department staff members handed out information, gathered informed consent forms, and asked patients to roll up their sleeves and roll down their windows to prepare them for the shot by the time they hit the tollbooth.

Dr Troutman said they set up video cameras on the outer roads to monitor and anticipate traffic, monitored the carbon monoxide levels of idling cars, and learnt the hard way to prepare for the possibility of a car breaking down.

Officials have since identified other similar points of distribution throughout the region, each with two to four lanes of capacity, so that they can vaccinate the entire local population in just a few days. The local health department has prepared a dozen large trailers stocked with vaccination supplies, stored in an underground facility, that can be deployed immediately.

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Written by Dr Martin Harris, Doctor and Mohel for Jewish Circumcision Clinic in London Bris Mila Brit Milah.
www.circumcisionlondon.co.uk

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