• ID Week begins in Atlanta, gathering global infectious-disease researchers, clinicians, and students. • The conference focuses on AI in healthcare and biopreparedness for disease outbreaks. • This article is part of "ID Week," a series on one of the leading conferences for infectious-disease experts.

On October 19, thousands of infectious-disease professionals — including doctors, researchers, and medical students — will fill the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta for Infectious Disease Week.

The annual conference, which runs through October 22, comes at a challenging time for the medical and scientific community: Vaccine hesitancy continues to spread, grant funding dwindles, and the government publicizes false claims about Tylenol's risks.

To understand how infectious-disea

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