{"id":3859,"date":"2018-04-22T11:05:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T15:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=3859"},"modified":"2018-04-27T18:15:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T22:15:56","slug":"ncrc-members-support-portsmouth-meds-pod-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=3859","title":{"rendered":"NCRC Members Support Portsmouth MEDS-POD Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several members of NCRC supported a <a href=\"http:\/\/health.ri.gov\/programs\/detail.php?pgm_id=148\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medical Emergency Distribution System &#8211; Points of Dispensing (MEDS-POD)<\/a> exercise for the town of Portsmouth on April 19th.\u00a0 Members involved were Chuck N1CKT, Brian N1TBT, Paul N1PSX, and John WA1ABI.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the exercise is to train volunteers that would be utilized if there were a medical emergency requiring the rapid distribution of medications like vaccinations quickly to a large population (10,000 residents in the Portsmouth case).\u00a0 The NCRC members were there to cover the communications required to coordinate such a large event.<\/p>\n<p>Copies of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newportri.com\/newportdailynews\/news\/local_state\/portsmouth-holds-vaccine-distribution-trial-run\/article_497f7cd8-7f24-5088-83b0-4b4aad962852.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newport Daily News<\/a> covering the exercise are included below<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Newport_Daily_News_20180420_A03_4.pdf\">Newport_Daily_News_20180420_A03_4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Newport_Daily_News_20180420_A05_0.pdf\">Newport_Daily_News_20180420_A05_0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several members of NCRC supported a Medical Emergency Distribution System &#8211; Points of Dispensing (MEDS-POD) exercise for the town of Portsmouth on April 19th.\u00a0 Members involved were Chuck N1CKT, Brian N1TBT, Paul N1PSX, and John WA1ABI. The purpose of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=3859\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecomm","category-public-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3873,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions\/3873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}