Dr. Michael O'Dwyer:

As we said, before Covid-19 was sepsis. When patients had severe Covid-19, they needed to be isolated and, by and large, were isolated. Leaving Covid-19 aside, a very small number of other causes of sepsis is contagious and needs to be isolated. Perhaps something like influenza and a couple of types of meningitis might need a short period of isolation but the vast majority is not contagious from patient to patient.