{"id":9581,"date":"2020-03-06T11:20:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T16:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/?p=9581"},"modified":"2020-03-06T12:48:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T17:48:31","slug":"croi-2020-is-on-plus-what-scares-me-and-doesnt-about-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/croi-2020-is-on-plus-what-scares-me-and-doesnt-about-coronavirus\/2020\/03\/06\/","title":{"rendered":"CROI 2020 Will Be a &#8220;Virtual Meeting&#8221; After All &#8212; Plus, What Scares Me (and Doesn\u2019t) About Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This just in:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CROI2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CROI2020<\/a> will be a virtual meeting this year! Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IAS_USA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IAS_USA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonnaJacobsen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DonnaJacobsen<\/a> and all CROI leadership for wrestling with this difficult decision and putting public health first.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KPmJ66x7GL\">https:\/\/t.co\/KPmJ66x7GL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Melanie Thompson (@drmt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drmt\/status\/1235969905863913479?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a frequent reader of this blog, you might have read here just minutes ago that it was going ahead after all &#8212; with a discussion about how difficult it must have been for the organizers to make the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind. Kudos to all of them for remaining nimble in this uncertain time.<\/p>\n<p>As for the coronavirus situation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/commonhealth\/2020\/03\/02\/infectious-disease-doctor-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/commonhealth\/2020\/03\/02\/infectious-disease-doctor-coronavirus&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1583594968558000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGsgWa-C7djlC0AcqHzuTEUDjSCug\"> there are some things I truly fear \u2014 and others, not\u00a0so\u00a0much<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was asked to write about them on WBUR\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/commonhealth.wbur.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/commonhealth.wbur.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1583594968558000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG634nR75_LX1w8t5-osc9l971MlA\">CommonHealth<\/a>. Many thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/inside\/staff\/carey-goldberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/inside\/staff\/carey-goldberg&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1583594968558000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF5WJwNeIYKgPXaMUFincvcq5KLew\"> Carey Goldberg<\/a> for this idea, and coming up with the\u00a0excellent\u00a0title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &mdash; Melanie Thompson (@drmt) March 6, 2020 If you&#8217;re a frequent reader of this blog, you might have read here just minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,10],"tags":[4472,244],"class_list":["post-9581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-hiv","category-infectious-diseases","category-research","tag-coronavirus","tag-croi"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}