DRIVE-BY SHOT CLINIC AND BIOTERROR DRILL FLU INOCULATIONS PROVIDE PRACTICE.Byline: PATRICIA PATRICIA Practical Algorithm To Retrieve Information Coded In Alphanumeric PATRICIA Proving and Testability for Reliability Improvement of Complex Integrated Architectures PATRICIA PApilloma TRIal Cervical cancer In young Adults FARRELL AIDEM Staff writer VALENCIA -- They practiced first on oranges, then on fellow students at College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. . Now, they're prepared to help in a terrorist attack. On Friday, a team of nursing students stood in makeshift aisles in the college parking lot, injecting drivers and passengers with free flu vaccines The flu vaccine is a vaccine to protect against the highly variable influenza virus. The annual flu kills an estimated 36,000 people in the United States. in a drive-through clinic. The program actually was designed with a much more serious threat than the flu in mind. Organizers staged the clinic to see how a drive-through program would work in the event of a major bioterrorism attack that left the entire Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. in need of an antidote antidote Remedy to counteract the effects of a poison or toxin. Administered by mouth, intravenously, or sometimes on the skin, it may work by directly neutralizing the poison; causing an opposite effect in the body; binding to the poison to prevent its absorption, . Whanie Powell of Valencia sat parked in her Lexus an hour and 20 minutes before the clinic opened. ``I always get everywhere early,'' said Powell, who was getting her first-ever flu shot. A few cars behind her, Pat Nelson read newspapers as she waited about a half hour for the operation to begin. ``I was going to get one anyway, and I like that they were doing this for preparation,'' said Nelson, who gets a flu vaccination every year. By 10 a.m. when the first of 1,000 shots were administered, 150 vehicles were in line, snaking through the otherwise empty parking lot. One crew managed the line, one handled paperwork, one directed traffic through four lines and another helped count cars and patients as they left. The clinic was a joint effort by the college, the county Health Department, the city of Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, and the Fire and Sheriff's departments. ``The worst thing that could happen is another New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded ,'' public health nurse Martha Collins Martha Collins may refer to
The drive-through plan is designed for mass traffic in the event of a disaster, college spokesman John McElwain said. With tens of thousands of people in need of inoculations, parking lots and surrounding streets would be jammed with cars. ``With 20... 30... 40,000 people, you don't want to have people park and leave there cars,'' he said. ``It really is an efficient way to move the people -- and their cars.'' pat.aidem@dailynews.com (661) 257-5251 CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1 -- color) College of the Canyons nursing student Iris Jaimes gives Robert Sinclair Robert Sinclair († 1398) was a late 14th century bishop of Orkney and bishop of Dunkeld. Before becoming a bishop, he was dean of the bishopric of Moray and had obtained a Bachelor's degree in Law. a flu shot at the drive-through clinic. (2 -- 3 -- color) Motorists, above, line up in the College of the Canyons parking lot for free flu shots at the drive-through clinic in Santa Clarita on Friday. Hundreds of needles were prepared to dispense the vaccine at the clinic. (4) College of the Canyons nursing students administer flu shots to motorists in the campus parking lot on Friday. David Crane/Staff Photographer |
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