What I see is we are going to be addressing this with a full level A HAZMAT response. I am level A qualified and cannot imagine trying to do anything more than rudimentary medical care.
Start an IV? No way.
I use PPE regularly myself, though not full level A. And it’s hard enough to get anything done wearing this lower level.
One thing most people don’t realize is how tiring it is to work in full PPE. When wearing tyvek, gloves and full face respirators, I always though one hour was about as tiring as doing the same work without the equipment. Of course, tired people are a lot more likely to make mistakes.
Any work you do is also done much more slowly. Add in the time donning and doffing PPE and production rate drops off the charts. I’ve generally found you can get at most 33% to 50% of the work done in eight hours when wearing full PPE.
Which means we’re going to need 2x to 3x the number of trained personnel to deal with each Ebola case. The problem being that there aren’t all that many of these people, and some percentage of them will, somewhat understandably, chicken out.