@ShaulaEvans @LonelinessCorps As a nurse we knew the isolation / vaccination cycle pretty well. I did not see a huge difference between the Ebola and COVID in terms of how most healthcare providers responded. To be fair I am on the pediatric side and our adult colleagues got hit way way harder than we did.

As far as lessons carried forward, we never got hit with ebola and judging by the lack of prep and supply chain issues we experienced (we were reusing PPE etc) there were no lessons learned sadly from the Ebola scare. Also only a select few were trained as it was too expensive and the response was based on taking a few patients not the outbreak we saw later with COVID. From a critical care transport standpoint, we always used PPE because you just never know when picking up a kid from an ED. Cultures may not be back etc so you just assume the worst

Also even non profit hospitals have a bottom line and stocking up on PPE etc is simply not in the cards sadly.