In 1984 my 21 year old heterosexual Godson,who lived in San Francisco,had an automobile accident.
He needed surgery,had a transfusion,and everything came out fine.
He was dead in a year. The blood killed him.
I had surgery in 1981. 5 years later, I got a letter from the hospital saying I *might* have received contaminated blood (HIV). It took several weeks to get a definitive answer that I had not.
Terrifying.
My sympathies to you and the boy’s family.
That is exactly why homosexuals should never be allowed to donate blood.
In 1983 or ‘84 I had a severe blood loss and the docs were going to force a transfusion on me. I utterly refused (although I had never heard of AIDS), I just did not want it (I am NOT a Jehovah’s Witness!). The docs huddled and allowed me to refuse it but I had to do stuff to build the blood back up. Now I feel grateful I refused because so many innocent people were getting AIDS from blood at that time.