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HIV question- blood draw

Hi am asking this question out of Paranoia.
I went to Labcorp for  some blood work, the person who took my blood wore gloves and used a new needle.
But while changing the blood collecting tube he pulled the needle out a little bit and a little bit of my blood sprayed out of nerve on to my hand, after the 2nd tube he pulled out the needle completely(threw it in the needle waste bin)  and cleaned the blood on my hand around the collection point with cotton.

He put cutton on the collection point the whole time while he was cleaning my hand and wore gloves during the whole process.once done he put a new cotton on the collection point and put a strap on it and told me to wait 10 mins and take it off.

Do you see any chance of transmission. He started cleaning my blodd after he threw away the needle in the bin, i was little worried what if he touch some blood there and then started cleaning my hand with that and used the same hand to put cotton on my collection point.
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This answers all of your HIV questions, and if you can think of any more just reread about the 3. You had zero risk therefore  testing is irrelevant to your situation because you had zero risk. HIV is a fragile virus, which is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.  
Only 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal with a penis. Only the head needs to be covered, so if that happened it is  protected and there is zero risk
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex with a penis. Only the head needs to be covered, so if that happened it is protected and there is zero risk.
3. sharing hollow needles that you inject with.
The only way to get HIV is if you did one of the 3. The situation you describe is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. This HIV science is 40 years old and very well established, so no detail that you can add to your encounter will change it from zero risk. Because of all the research statistics, doctors have calculated the risk from what you describe to be less than that of being hit by a meteor, therefore no one will get HIV from what you did in the next 40 years of your life either.
If you didn't have one of the 3 then you are just worrying about your own hiv theory - which is unrealistic for you to think that can become reality - so you should move on back to your happy life instead.
It is unrealistic for you to think that you know how to do the nurse job but the nurse does not. Move on from hiv.
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It was reassuring but I was just worried thinking what happens if he touches some infected blood and then cleaned my needle stick place. I know am asking the same question again, sorry for that, is there a chance in that scenario. Does HIV even transmit like that. Or the only way HIV can transmit is if they reused a needle which has infected blood and usee it to draw my blood.
Reread about fragile.
Let's make this simple since there are only 3 risks for hiv. Which of the 3 do you feel was your risk? If none, then you are just worrying about your hiv theory which is unrealistic for you to believe that can become reality since you do not have any medical research training.
Ya I didn't fall into any if those categories. So as soon HIV infected blood come into contact with air the virus will die and no chance of it going into the needle stick wound and no need to worry
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