In a BMC_series blog, BMCInfectDis Associate Editor Dr. Ziad El-Khatib shares his impressions and takeaways from the hybrid European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE) that took place recently in Stockholm.
I attended during 24-26 November 2022 to the European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology , organized and hosted by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in Stockholm during 24 – 26 November 2022. The conference was conducted in a hybrid mode, where a total of 500 and 2,400 persons attended in-person and online, respectively.
The topic of communication took a large part of the conference. The COVID19 pandemic moved very fast and therefore we need to invest more in communication with the public. The internet and social media made us realize that the so-called geographical borders are just political or “human-made” and the world has become as a single country. Also, we need to focus more on how we communicate scientific messages to the public.
Finally, COVID19 has pushed different scientific methods to scale their work and to be innovative on how to work at a much faster pace. For example, the Polymerase Chain Reaction testing and genome sequencing has increased by several folds post-COVID19.
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