Baltimore County's mass vaccination sites—called "PODs," which stands for Point of Dispensing—can serve up to 500 patients an hour. The logistics of moving so many people safely through a space are complicated, but Terry Sapp, the public health emergency coordinator for Baltimore County, is drawing on his years of experience setting up venues for the heavy metal rock band Twisted Sister. Sapp talks to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about crowd control and the human psychology behind successful PODs and, yes, the jokes he hears—"As far as COVID vaccines, we're going to take it...and we want you to take it too."
KEYWORDS: vaccine distribution; pandemic response
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