The CDC has an excuse on their website that the reason they use the full gear in West Africa is because the conditions are so much worse (less clean, going from one ebola patient to another, etc.) than in US hospitals.
Either Frieden is in denial or he is one extremely stupid man. Either way, you are right, these guidelines for health workers in the US are dangerous.
Are the troops going into the hot zone bound by the CDC's "protocols"?