Thanks for posting this.
I admire the doctor’s straightforwardness... rare these days.
I’m not a physician or a nurse, but I have participated in Emergency Preparedness committees, and these are the sorts of things that are contemplated.
When a large out-break of a communicable disease takes place, you have to screen people before they get inside the hospital. You don’t want to contaminate the general staff and the broad body of patients already inside.
An overflow tent situation is considered a likely way to respond to these types of situations.
As for treating these people in large open spaces in a big tent, it may be a great idea. Now, if you can just get the inner city people to play along...
Boy, the racial tension that will come about in nanoseconds will be something to behold.