Jon CohenScience's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.Anton Pozniak attended his first international AIDS conference in 1990, and it changed his life.
The English physician was debating whether he should specialize in infectious disease or pulmonology. After the meeting, there was little debate. “I just thought I have got to be a part of this.” Now, Pozniak heads the International AIDS Society (IAS), which runs the mega biannual meeting, originally scheduled to take place in San Francisco and Oakland, California, next week.
Instead, it is going virtual.AIDS 2020, the 23rd International AIDS Conference, is but one of slews of scientific meetings that have been upended by COVID-19 and gone online.