Organizers opt for all-virtual CROI for third year in a row
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Organizers announced Tuesday that the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections will be an entirely virtual meeting for the third year in a row because of COVID-19.
The organizers said several factors — including the emergence of the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 — “make it impossible to predict where we will be in the course of this latest surge” by the time the conference is scheduled to begin next month.
“Due to the fast-evolving state of the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of the omicron variant, the institution of travel bans and isolation requirements worldwide, and the impact on the health care system and the health care practitioners taking care of the surge of COVID-19 patients, it is unsafe and impossible to have the in-person component of the conference,” CROI leadership said in a statement.
"The decision is multifactorial,” they continued, “but our foremost priority is to ensure the health and safety of our attendees.”
In 2020, CROI was one of the first medical conferences to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, as online meetings became more routine, organizers again opted for an all-virtual format.
This year’s conference, which would have been held in Denver, will take place online from Feb. 12-16. Registration costs $585 and can be purchased through CROI’s website.
You can read more than a decade’s worth of coverage of the meeting at Healio’s CROI Resource Center.
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