{"id":607158,"date":"2009-11-28T08:12:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T13:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.jwatch.org\/hiv-id-observations\/?p=620"},"modified":"2009-11-28T08:12:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T13:12:39","slug":"icaac-idsa-%e2%80%94-alone-again%c2%a0naturally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/607158","title":{"rendered":"ICAAC-IDSA \u2014 Alone Again\u00a0(Naturally)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pcvb_con_hall\"Just received my latest copy of Infectious Disease News<\/em><\/a>, that large glossy review magazine* that arrives approximately monthly in my mailbox.<\/p>\n

As usual, I turned right to Dr. Theodore C. Eickhoff’s always-thoughtful editorial, this month entitled “Reflections on the 47th IDSA Meeting.”\u00a0 He writes:<\/p>\n

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It was a much more “user-friendly” number of attendees, in \t\tcontrast to the almost 15,000 people that attended the joint meeting last year. \t\tI heard absolutely no one express a desire to have another joint IDSA-ICAAC \t\tmeeting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I can see his point — the combined meeting in Washington last year drew over 15,000 participants, and at times was just too gargantuan to manage.<\/p>\n

But if I could for a moment be the lone voice arguing for a joint meeting, here’s my pitch:\u00a0 Last year, tons <\/em>of people\u00a0 <\/em>in ID went to ICAAC-IDSA, even people who rarely go to either meeting.\u00a0 This year, not so much — which might explain the “somewhat muted and subdued” tone Eickhoff found at IDSA this year in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Either that or what the Yankees were doing against the Phillies.<\/p>\n

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(*Don’t call it a “throwaway<\/a>!”)<\/p>\n

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Just received my latest copy of Infectious Disease News, that large glossy review magazine* that arrives approximately monthly in my mailbox. As usual, I turned right to Dr. Theodore C. Eickhoff’s always-thoughtful editorial, this month entitled “Reflections on the 47th IDSA Meeting.”\u00a0 He writes: It was a much more “user-friendly” number of attendees, in contrast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xWS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}