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It’s about expediting care, not politics, officials said.
Workers from the Uganda Red Cross Society don protective suits as they prepare to evacuate the body of a suspected Ebola victim in the capital, Kampala, on May 26. | Photo by Badru KATUMBA/AFP via Getty Images
Trump administration officials on Thursday said Americans exposed to Ebola during the current outbreak in the Congo will be sent to a newly constructed facility at an air base in Kenya, instead of returning them to the U.S. The officials said it was the best option to expedite their care.
The decision is a break from past practice during prior Ebola outbreaks when Americans were brought home for care. An American doctor who cared for Ebola patients during the 2014 epidemic in west Africa, Craig Spencer, and was treated in New York City after returning home and developing symptoms, has already said the decision to send U.S. citizens to Kenya amounted to abandoning “our responsibility for our own.”
