Were I in charge of a hospital, admission for Covid-19 treatment

[Ms. Toad]

58. Did you sleep through the 80s?

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6353a4.htm

During 1985–2013, 58 confirmed and 150 possible cases of occupationally acquired HIV infection among HCWs were reported to CDC; since 1999, only one confirmed case (a laboratory technician sustaining a needle puncture while working with a live HIV culture in 2008) has been reported (1; Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC, unpublished data, 2014) (Figure). Among the 58 confirmed cases, the routes of exposure resulting in infection were: percutaneous puncture or cut (49 cases), mucocutaneous exposure (five), both percutaneous and mucocutaneous exposure (two), and unknown (two). A total of 49 HCWs were exposed to HIV-infected blood, four to concentrated virus in a laboratory, one to visibly bloody fluid, and four to unspecified body fluids. Occupations of the HCWs with confirmed or possible HIV infection have varied widely (Table).

AIDS is much harder to transmit, but there were transmissions from patient to hospital staff, especially before we knew it was blood born.