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| Yes, Drive-Through Swine Flu Shots |
| By kypost.com |
| Published: 09/16/2009 |
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Around Louisville, Ky., public health officials have long since scoped out banks with drive-up teller stations that might be used to dispense swine flu shots instead of cash. "We've done exercises for several years at the state fairgrounds, parking lots, other public places with multiple lanes where we could move a lot of people through quickly,'' said Dr. Adwale Troutman, director of Louisville Metro Public Health and Wellness, speaking during a recent conference on swine flu preparation in Washington. "We've tried to make plans to use schools for mass vaccinations, but we've found it's logistically difficult for people to come in." In many of the rural southwest Texas counties served by the Department of State Health Services' District 8, "We don't have much in the way of drive-thru banks,'' said Nancy Walea, a public health nurse at the same conference. "We've done some mass vaccination drills with our hospitals, but most of our banks would be a little cozy." As a member of the district's epidemiology response team, Walea was on the front lines of initial swine flu outbreak last April, repeatedly visiting the homes of the two San Antonio-area teens who were the first in the state to be diagnosed with the new strain. Read More. |
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