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March 21st, 2021
If You Want Thoughtful and Accurate Predictions About COVID-19, Zeynep Tufekci Has the Answers
The future ain’t what it used to be, said one very wise man. He might have also said, It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future, but alas we’ll have to credit that profundity to someone else. Still, both these statements embody the insurmountable difficulty of making accurate predictions — a problem starkly evident […]
March 14th, 2021
Really Rapid Review — CROI 2021 Virtual
For a few years in the early 2010s, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) — in my opinion our premiere HIV scientific meeting — covered almost as many hepatitis C clinical trials as those on HIV. Or at least it seemed that way. This made sense at the time — the startling success […]
March 7th, 2021
Exactly One Year Ago, a Memorable Dinner Before a Memorable Year
On March 7, 2020, right before CROI here in Boston, a bunch of us ID types planned to get together for a pre-conference dinner. A mixture of Bostonians and out-of-towners who hadn’t seen each other for a while. A chance to catch up before our busiest (and most important) scientific meeting. What happened? One person […]
Paul E. Sax, MD
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NEJM Clinician
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