It seems to me that having boots on the ground would allow you to talk to healthcare providers, morticians, community members...do a kind of internal reporting

It seems to me that having boots on the ground would allow you to talk to healthcare providers, morticians, community members...do a kind of internal reporting where you asses risks and make recommendations to anyone with the power to help contain, whether that is educating community, suggesting policing actions to local govt, or lobbying for the appropriate kind of external mediation (whether that’s vaccines, clean water, quarantine, etc, depending on the situation on the ground) Edit: ...gathering samples, studying samples (shipping is not always trivial)...basically anything where you don’t really trust the local response for whatever combination of reasons, and you want to prevent or at least be ready in case there’s a global outbreak