Dominic Republic of Congo, right near the eastern border with Uganda. The facility is under attack, isn’t it? Young men from the surrounding community are storming the grounds. They're burning down the triage tent set up by Doctors Without Borders and demanding that the hospital hand over the bodies of their deceased relatives. The terrifying reality of that scene is that those bodies are highly infectious—they died of Ebola. As a result, the medical staff are forced to evacuate, and the virus is effectively released back into the local community. This situation highlights why we are diving straight into our stack of sources today.

We need to understand why the global health response to pandemics is, fundamentally, breaking down. It’s a major failure point. We have on-the-ground news reports detailing this outbreak in the DRC, along with de ...