PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Stefan Frent
AU  - Cristina Calarasu
AU  - Kseniia Suska
AU  - Kateryna Gashynova
AU  - Holly Keir
TI  - ERS international congress, 2020: Highlights from the respiratory infections assembly
AID  - 10.1183/23120541.00091-2021
DP  - 2021 Jan 01
TA  - ERJ Open Research
PG  - 00091-2021
4099  - http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/early/2021/03/04/23120541.00091-2021.short
4100  - http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/early/2021/03/04/23120541.00091-2021.full
AB  - In the COVID-19 pandemic year 2020, the 30th edition of the ERS Congress took place for the first time in a fully virtual format. Despite the challenging nature of the task to create and deliver an online event of this size and scope, the ERS Congress 2020 turned to be a great success, welcoming over 33 000 delegates to the specially designed online platform and offering more than 450 scientific and educational sessions. Somewhat predictable, this year's Congress dedicated a full day on COVID-19 topic, highlighting that infection with SARS-CoV-2 is a respiratory disease. In this article the Early Career Members of the Assembly 10 (Respiratory Infections and Tuberculosis) review some of the most interesting sessions including presentations and posters on respiratory infections and tuberculosis that were deemed as important.FootnotesThis manuscript has recently been accepted for publication in the ERJ Open Research. It is published here in its accepted form prior to copyediting and typesetting by our production team. After these production processes are complete and the authors have approved the resulting proofs, the article will move to the latest issue of the ERJOR online. Please open or download the PDF to view this article.Conflict of interest: Dr. Frent has nothing to disclose.Conflict of interest: Dr. Calarasu has nothing to disclose.Conflict of interest: Dr. Suska has nothing to disclose.Conflict of interest: Dr. Gashynova has nothing to disclose.Conflict of interest: Dr. Keir has nothing to disclose.