Mass Immunizations: A Pocket Guide

Abstract

Numerous state, national, and global resources exist for planning and executing mass vaccination campaigns. However, they are disparate and can be complex. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for clear, easy to use mass vaccination resources. Meanwhile, annual influenza vaccination, as well as outbreaks such as mpox, demonstrates the need for continued emphasis on timely and effective vaccinations to mitigate outbreaks. This pocket guide seeks to combine relevant resources and basic steps for setting up a mass vaccination clinic, utilizing experience from COVID-19 mass vaccination sites.

The Role of Vaccination Centers in a National Mass Immunization Campaign—Policymaker Insights from the German COVID-19 Pandemic Vaccine Roll-Out

“…However, sound scientific research into the role and use of vaccination centers remains limited. Existing studies mostly focus on overviews of different vaccination strategies [4,[7][8][9][10], individual operational aspects (e.g., process flows [11], the placement of structures [12,13]) or overall operational lessons learned, mostly drawing on single-site case studies, with a less stringent methodology [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. No retrospective, comprehensive evaluations of the role and use of vaccination centers at the highest level of national strategic coordination have been conducted yet.…”