STAT’s guide to health care conferences disrupted by the coronavirus crisis
Conference organizers are cancelling, postponing, or virtualizing medical meetings, biotech gatherings, and scientific summits in part because "Nobody wants to be the chump that held the Meeting of Death."
As the novel coronavirus races around the globe, a growing number of conference organizers are cancelling, postponing, or virtualizing their medical meetings, biotech gatherings, and scientific summits.
Similar moves are being made in many industries, but the pressure seems to be elevated in health care to call off conferences where the virus could spread. After all, many would-be attendees are coming from and returning to hospitals on the front lines of caring for people with Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, or who are vulnerable to it.
It’s too early to estimate the magnitude of the financial losses for organizers, attendees, and service industry professionals
