Back to the Future (with COVID) - Part 2

Dutiful blog readers will recall that some of the membership was reluctant to come to the American Sociology Association's in-person convention in LA because of rising COVID cases.*

As it turns out, the case rate, hospitalizations, and deaths in LA County now seems to have plateaued and even begun to drop. (See accompanying chart.) However, an online alternative was offered to participants reluctant to come to the in-person meetings. From Inside Higher Ed:

Thousands of sociologists are expected at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, which starts Friday. But the location of the meeting, in Los Angeles, has upset some scholars, because the city is home to the latest variation of coronavirus, a version that is supercontagious.

So Alan Martino, a sociologist at the University of Calgary, has organized a one-day Sociological Research Jamboree** for tomorrow...

Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/08/01/sociologists-who-don%E2%80%99t-want-go-la.

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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/07/back-to-future-with-covid.html.

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**https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q4Fg9VQHl5Xjoc4d9o8Ic0Ay3o_gY35I/view.

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We also noted in a prior blog post that the American Economic Association is offering a hybrid in-person/remote format for its upcoming meetings in New Orleans:

http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/07/hybrid.html.

It's likely that there will be some permanent use of in-person/online options for other professional groups as a lasting result of the pandemic.