The local emergency responders, CERT teams, and Civil Air Patrol are holding a mass immunization exercise today. The scenario is a bioterrorism threat with resultant immunizations needed by the entire community.

Two locations have been set up with a goal of seeing 500 people (between the two locations) going through an hour.

The pull? Free flu shots.

I was there bright and early this morning and was able to make it through all five stations (greeting, check-in, immunization, checkout, survey) in right around 5 minutes. Everyone had big smiles on their faces - broadened by my own quirky sense of humor, of course.

Our receptionist went by about an hour or so later and discovered there was no way to get into the parking lot - so that is a good thing - that they are busy, not that she couldn’t get into the parking lot.

People are encouraged to go through the exercise even if they don’t want a flu shot. The big push is to see how many people they can accommodate in the 6 hours or so the exercise is going on.

I’ll show you my special bandaid later.

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Posted: November 17th, 2006 under Alaska, Moose Nuggets, NaBloPoMo.
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