Angie Vasa

So it really is to decrease any risk to the downstream workers who would be receiving that waste from our facility.

Yeah.

So we have been tracking that.

So the current strategy to potentially move American citizens who have been exposed to Ebola to

To Kenya for monitoring and observation is going to require a lot of different strategies to make it successful.

So I think it's still in the beginning stages of planning.

It's interesting because I would also note that at this time, the United States is more prepared than it has ever been.

has the highest capacity that it's ever had to be able to provide care for individuals within the National Special Pathogen System.

I would say yes with a caveat.

So we could, in theory, provide quarantine care for two different pathogens simultaneously without any cross-contamination, so to speak.

I think for the definitive care piece where people become sick, that's really where we would need to use the national special pathogen system.

So those 13 regional emerging special pathogen treatment centers.

So if folks were here in the quarantine unit and needed biocontainment care, we would be wanting to move those individuals out to the other regional treatment centers so that they could have ready access to those critical care services.

So that's a great question.

So our team maintains a constant state of readiness.

And so we're required through our contracts to be able to activate our unit within eight hours or less.

And so we train our team on a quarterly basis.

We have over 100 people who voluntarily apply to be on our biocontainment unit, quarantine unit teams.

And they come in for training every three months.

And then we also participate in assessment and preparedness measures for other hospitals across HHS Region 7, which is Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri.