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A Model For The Rapid Distribution Of Critical Medical Countermeasures To Large U.S. Populations During A Public Health Emergency Via The Sns-Rss-Pod System, Roger Ivan Fiske
A Model For The Rapid Distribution Of Critical Medical Countermeasures To Large U.S. Populations During A Public Health Emergency Via The Sns-Rss-Pod System, Roger Ivan Fiske
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In the event of a large scale public health emergency in the United States, the need for emergency medical supplies may quickly exceed existing local and regional resources. In these circumstances, specific life-saving countermeasures may be released from the CDC (The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) and delivered to local Points of Dispensing (PODs) via a rapid emergency distribution system that involves multiple governmental agencies and private sector organizations. Included in this distribution system are temporary Receiving, Staging, Storage (RSS) warehousing operations. One of the primary objectives of this SNS-RSS-POD system is to …