IDWeek returns as a virtual meeting again
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IDWeek, originally planned for San Diego, will be an all-virtual meeting for the second year in a row because of COVID-19.
Beginning on Wednesday, Sept. 29, IDWeek will kick off with its second annual 24-hour long pandemic-related session, “Chasing the Sun,” at 10 a.m. EDT. The meeting will continue through Sunday, Oct. 3.
Infectious Disease News Chief Medical Editor Paul A. Volberding, MD, said he believes people are “increasingly eager” to return to an in-person meeting format.
“I think we've tolerated the virtual meetings well,” Volberding, a professor emeritus of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, told Healio. “I think they've proven that they can have a real value, but I think at the same time, people really miss the collaborations and the informal data sharing that comes from being in person, and that doesn't quite happen the same way with a Zoom meeting.”
Volberding said it may be a while before large in-person meetings return.
“It may never happen, or at least they may take a long time. The benefits for people who don't have to travel, who don't have to spend the money, might not have the funds to be able to go to a meeting a long way away — those are going to persist,” he said.
“Hopefully, when the pandemic is better controlled than it is now, we're still going to have the option of attending meetings electronically, and I think that's a good thing,” he said. “All of that said, people are eager to get back together, no question.”
Volberding said he was interested in hearing about research into the use of dolutegravir in pregnant women, long-acting injectables and resistance emerging in PrEP regimens.
Interested participants can register for IDWeek via the website.
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