Public Health 101:
We treat and quarantine at source.
The proposed facility should be built and maintained at source, in the DRC, where the outbreak risk exists and where response capacity is most urgently needed.
Outbreaks are managed at source using tried and tested public health measures: surveillance, isolation, contact tracing, diagnostics, PPE, trained personnel, community engagement, safe transport systems, and accountable emergency coordination.
Preparedness is not the importation of confirmed, infected, or exposed patients into a population that has not consented to carry that risk.
Preparedness is building capacity where the threat exists, protecting affected communities, and ensuring that neighbouring countries are not turned into holding grounds for geopolitical convenience.
America is trying to rewrite international infectious disease preparedness by pretending that importing exposed patients into Kenya is the same as strengthening preparedness.
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