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Understanding Points of Dispensing Closed PODs are sites staffed and managed by organizations and agencies (both public and private) to dispense MCMs only to their own populations while continuing operations during a public health emergency. Open and closed PODs can and should be used simultaneously.

Centralized locations in an impacted area where survivors pick up life-sustaining relief supplies following a disaster or emergency. More Information.

PODs or points of dispensing, are community locations in which state and local agencies dispense MCMs to the public during a public health emergency.

Points of Dispensing, or PODs, can be set up to distribute medicine, vaccine, and medical supplies.

A POD has four basic operational activities: intake, screening, dispensing, and exit.

Patients' Own Drugs (PODs) are the medicines that patients have obtained in the community setting and bring to hospital.

PODs include vaccination and dispensing clinics, and countermeasures include pharmaceuticals such as antibiotics, respirators, personal protective equipment, vaccines, and other medical materials.

A nonmedical POD system, on the other hand, provides care using a population approach; no individual medical examinations or assessments are conducted.