Alarm bells should be blaring about the growing mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where community organizations best positioned to prevent a wider outbreak or pandemic report a lack of funding and shortage of basic supplies. It was only in early October that limited quantities of vaccines reached some impacted communities. But health care and other frontline workers remain unprotected and under-resourced.
It’s as if the world had not just experienced a major pandemic, during which we painfully learned that a faster and more robust investment in early action and preventive measures could have slowed transmission and saved countless lives.
