If a patient is on a ventilator and there is any sunctioning, that would seem to be a perfect time for fluids with EVD present to become more mobile. Why wouldn’t you want skin and hair covered? Another Freeper mentioned this - Jim Noble, I think.
Ventilator, intubation, and dialysis are all supposed to be especially high-risk procedures for infection. But even merely caring for an Ebola patient—before counting in violent diarrhea and vomiting—should have been enough to give the nurses far greater protection.
The CDC is still recommending only inadequate procedures, so what difference does the number of experts dispatched on site make?