Palm Beach County Health Department, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
Pediatrics. 2012 Mar;129 Suppl 2:S101-6. doi: 10.1542/peds.2011-0737J.
In Palm Beach County, Florida, the fall 2005 influenza vaccination season was interrupted by Hurricane Wilma, a particularly destructive storm that resulted in flooding, power outages, extensive property damage, and suspension of many routine community services. In its aftermath, all public health resources were immediately turned to the response and recovery process. School-located mass influenza vaccination (SLV) clinics were scheduled to begin in 1 week, but were necessarily postponed for a month. The juxtaposition of these 2 major public health events afforded the school district, health department, and other community services an opportunity to see their similarities and adopt the Incident Command System structure to manage the SLV clinics across West Palm Beach County, Florida, a geographically large county. Other lessons were learned during the hurricane concerning organizations and people, processes, and communications, and were applicable to school-located mass influenza vaccination programs, and vice versa. Those lessons are related here.
在佛罗里达州的棕榈滩县，2005 年秋季流感疫苗接种季被飓风威尔玛打断。这场飓风破坏力极强，引发了洪水泛滥、停电、大规模财产损失以及许多常规社区服务的暂停。飓风过后，所有公共卫生资源立即投入到应对和恢复工作中。原定于一周后开始的学校集中式流感疫苗接种（SLV）诊所不得不推迟一个月。这两个重大公共卫生事件的同时发生，使学区、卫生局和其他社区服务部门有机会看到它们的相似之处，并采用事故指挥系统结构来管理佛罗里达州西棕榈滩县的 SLV 诊所，该县面积很大。飓风期间还吸取了有关组织和人员、流程和沟通的其他经验教训，这些经验教训适用于学校集中式流感疫苗接种计划，反之亦然。这里介绍了这些经验教训。
