COVID Strategy for the 2022 ISMS

We are implementing several overlapping safety measures to minimize the risk of COVID during the conference:

Vaccinations: All meeting attendees are required to be fully vaccinated, as defined by their country of origin. Registrants will receive a link to VaccineCheck, a secure third-party site that verifies your vaccination status (e.g. symposium staff won't know which vaccine you took). We regret that we cannot offer exemptions for this policy, but we have made every effort to make the virtual experience as seamless as possible with the in-person experience.
Masks: Masks will be required in all lecture halls
Testing: Rapid tests will be provided to all in-person attendees to test each morning of the conference. You will receive these on check-in, and we ask you to self-test every morning.
Distancing: We are moving as many of the social events outside as possible, such as the Tuesday night picnic and the Women's networking reception. Several standalone HEPA filtration units will be set up in the library (near the vendor tables and the donuts/coffee) to supplement the filtration already provided by the building ventilation system.
Quarantine: Attendees who are in shared dorm rooms but test positive will be asked to move to a single suite, and we have blocked off suites for this purpose.