Pace of medical conference shutdowns is accelerating as the coronavirus outbreak spreads
Tanat Chinbunchorn, a physician and HIV prevention researcher, was mid-flight between Bangkok, Thailand, and Boston on Friday when he received a text message informing him that the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections had been moved online.
“I traveled for 20 hours,” he said, speaking to STAT from his Boston hotel room on Saturday. Chinbunchorn works for the Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Center and had received a young investigators grant to present a scientific poster at CROI on the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis to reduce HIV transmission in Thailand.
