Eventually you have to draw the line at what is possible. Setting up level 4 situations in hospitals is way outside of that realm. Remember level 4 includes positive pressure suits and all the external ventilation that implies. Nursing is actually a dangerous profession, people don’t realize that, but it is. There’s a reason they show up on all the disease risk groups, AIDS, hep C, herpes. You name it, nurses get it. It’s unfortunate, but there’s no way around it.
AIDS is actually trickier to get than ebola. One of the Nigerian doctors contracted ebola with a single ungloved touch of an IV bag in the patients room.
I haven’t heard of AIDS being contracted that way.
Hep C and herpes don’t have 90% fatality within 3 weeks of being contracted, either.
What WILL happen with insuffient PPE is that nurses and doctors will simply stay home.
I can’t blame them, either. Medicine isn’t a suicide pact. They have families. When they realize their odds of getting infected and dying may exceed those for specops in battlefield/combat situations AND place those families at immediate risk (in contrast with the specops guys) they will just stay home.
Agreed. Not practical or possible in today's world in standard hospitals. Something you could maybe imagine 50 years from now in a Jetson's medical clinic if society hasn't regressed to the dark ages.