Reasons why an Incident Commander might choose to Shelter-in-Place

In a time-limited acute health crisis, an Incident Commander might choose to shelter special needs populations in place in their facilities for a numbers of reasons:

Some facilities house large populations or people with special needs. The term “special needs” is fairly general.

To help understand the needs of this population, “special needs” could be defined as “people who cannot comfortably or safely access and use the standard resources offered in disaster preparedness, relief and recovery.”