The Trump administration's plan to send Americans with Ebola to a facility in Kenya instead of treating them in the US is a dangerous abdication of responsibility. How can we trust a makeshift facility over state-of-the-art quarantine centers? This decision puts lives at risk and undermines our ability to contain the outbreak.

A health expert reportedly called it "shocking" that the government is "looking to prevent Americans from coming home."

The Trump administration is expected to deploy US public health officers to Kenya to staff a potential quarantine facility there amid the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic…

The facility is pending approval from the Kenyan government.