The medical precautions are the same as for hepatitis, cholera or hiv...gloves and if they are coughing up blood, a facemask. Basic stuff you learn in medical or nursing school.
luckily, unless they cough right into your face, it is not spread by air, like pneumonic plague or tb or bird flu.
I suspect a lot of medical deaths are from gloves that break or no masks, and maybe because there simply is not enough protective gear available. Our mission hospital of 200 patients got 6 pairs of gloves a month, and we reused them, and even reused bandages that were clean ie upperlayer on a wound. True, that was 1980, but these areas are still poor.
Thank you for your response. Very informative from someone in the business.
I think the problem was dealing with the dead.