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March 6th, 2020
CROI 2020 Will Be a “Virtual Meeting” After All — Plus, What Scares Me (and Doesn’t) About Coronavirus
This just in:
BREAKING NEWS: #CROI2020 will be a virtual meeting this year! Thanks to @IAS_USA @DonnaJacobsen and all CROI leadership for wrestling with this difficult decision and putting public health first. https://t.co/KPmJ66x7GL
— Melanie Thompson (@drmt) March 6, 2020
If you’re a frequent reader of this blog, you might have read here just minutes ago that it was going ahead after all — with a discussion about how difficult it must have been for the organizers to make the decision.
Never mind. Kudos to all of them for remaining nimble in this uncertain time.
As for the coronavirus situation, there are some things I truly fear — and others, not so much.
I was asked to write about them on WBUR’s CommonHealth. Many thanks to Carey Goldberg for this idea, and coming up with the excellent title.
Paul E. Sax, MD
Contributing Editor
NEJM Journal Watch
Infectious Diseases
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