I watched a Horizon documentary the other day on pandemics (was from a few years ago). They had a lot of clips of press conferences from the 1980s where people were being promised a vaccine for the HIV virus within 2 years of that being discovered. Never happened, took decades before any sort of reliable treatment for symptoms appeared. This is a very different virus obviously but you can't assume they will ever find a vaccine or treatment and we may just have to live with the fact that everyone will get it sooner or later and lots of people will die.

The temporary hospitals being thrown up may end up being modern-day leper colonies, once up and running they can send everyone back to work