Published 25 August 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b3462
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b3462

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Drive-in vaccination allows 16 seconds per shot

Bob Roehr

1 Washington, DC

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

Officials in metropolitan Louisville, Kentucky (population 1.2 million) have found a new way to rapidly inoculate a population. Last year the metropolitan public health department 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.

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, said Adewale Troutman, the regional public health director. He was speaking at the international swine flu conference in Washington, DC.

"In our plan we allowed 16 seconds to administer the injection," he said. . . . [Full text of this article]


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