Stephen Schwartz MD PhD, University of Washington Pathologist passes away from Covid

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From the University of Washington Pathology Twitter Page:

We are deeply saddened that faculty member Professor Stephen Schwartz passed away due to a COVID-19 infection.

He has left a lasting imprint on our department, our university, and the broader scientific community and will be greatly missed.

Please keep his family in your prayers.

 

[Napoleon1801]

*******...

 

[LADoc00]

Shut up. is this real? If this isnt real, I hope you are banned for life man. As funny as I personally find all this "Tom Hanks is dead" joke threads, this is wayyyy too early for comedic levity.

You need to IMMEDIATELY put a link at least.

This isnt funny anymore...I have made too much money shorting the market to die now.

 

[Kierkegaard's Bud]

Shut up. is this real? If this isnt real, I hope you are banned for life man. As funny as I personally find all this "Tom Hanks is dead" joke threads, this is wayyyy too early for comedic levity.

You need to IMMEDIATELY put a link at least.

This isnt funny anymore...I have made too much money shorting the market to die now.

UW professor Stephen Schwartz dies from COVID-19

UW professor Dr. Stephen Schwartz has died due to a COVID-19 infection, the department of pathology announced in a tweet Wednesday afternoon.

www.dailyuw.com

 

[LADoc00]

Ummm, good God...everyone now has permission to freak out.

 

[WEBB PINKERTON]

Someone on the Path-L listserv got mixed up and wrote a tribute to a pathologist that is still alive yesterday. The Path-L listserv was once a useful website but it is about a active as local restaurants are right now.

He was 78 years old and in a hot spot for the virus. For god's sake stay away from people as much as you can.

 

[dukeresident]

Someone on the Path-L listserv got mixed up and wrote a tribute to a pathologist that is still alive yesterday. The Path-L listserv was once a useful website but it is about a active as local restaurants are right now.

He was 78 years old and in a hot spot for the virus. For god's sake stay away from people as much as you can.

indeed. In a very vulnerable age group.

 

[WEBB PINKERTON]

Another pathologist has passed away.




It is with great sadness we report that Barbara A. Winkler, MD passed away on Sunday, April 5, 2020 from complications with COVID-19.

Dr. Winkler completed her pathology residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and was a Pathologist at CareMount Medical in Mount Kisco, New York. Dr. Winkler was an active member of the ASC and the College of American Pathologists. She was recently Chair of the ASC Public Affairs and Advocacy Committee from 2013-2016 and a Member of the CAP’s Cytopathology Committee. She was the force and the inspiration behind the humanitarian efforts at CervicoCusco, a Peruvian non-profit organization committed to improving the health and quality of life of Peruvian women through the prevention of cervical cancer.

Dr. Winkler is survived by her husband of 45 years, Dr. David Enrique Monsanto, daughter, Gabriela, and son-in-law, Kevin. She was a devoted aunt to Dominick and Henry Fortnash and a loving sister to David Winkler. She loved to watch and play tennis, traveling, shopping, going to Broadway shows, but above all, she loved the opera. She was an avid reader but her real passion besides her family was cooking.

Those who worked with Dr. Winkler remember her very fondly for her wisdom, guidance, kindness, compassion, humor, and friendship. She was loved by all. May her memory be eternal.


Elizabeth A. Jenkins | Executive Director

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF

Cytopathology

 

[yaah]

The numbers of health care practitioners getting infected is pretty alarming. It's so hard to know how much of this is due to increased testing availability - most hospitals will test health care workers with exposures even if they wouldn't otherwise qualify as high risk or have significant symptoms. But in Italy there are a lot of fatal cases among health care workers - and a non-trivial number in the US at this early stage.

 

[LADoc00]

Should all of us just read slides only from home?? Im serious. I think I read something last week that even taking a crap at a hospital carries significant risk...If you cant take a mid day pathology dump, should you even be there?!

 

[KeratinPearls]

Should all of us just read slides only from home?? Im serious. I think I read something last week that even taking a crap at a hospital carries significant risk...If you cant take a mid day pathology dump, should you even be there?!

Yeah there’s talk of this covid causing infection via the fecal oral route. I guess taking a dump if your alone is ok. If your in the bathroom and two dudes are taking a dookie, hold your breath and gtfo there.

 

[D1b()4]

Should all of us just read slides only from home?? Im serious. I think I read something last week that even taking a crap at a hospital carries significant risk...If you cant take a mid day pathology dump, should you even be there?!

There is an easy and affordable solution. Just get a portable commode for your office.

 

[Guest8]

There is an easy and affordable solution. Just get a portable commode for your office.

Chamber pot FTW!

 

[yaah]

Should all of us just read slides only from home?? Im serious. I think I read something last week that even taking a crap at a hospital carries significant risk...If you cant take a mid day pathology dump, should you even be there?!

Well, we are now allowed to read slides from home, apparently. But does it reduce risk that much if you're getting the slides and paperwork anyway? I guess you're protected if you're digitized, but that's another massive expense.

All these studies about how "the virus lives on paper for 4 days" don't help either - a lot of the studies don't say whether it's just detectable virus components (and thus not really infectious) or it's actually still infectious.

 

[ccous]

Well, we are now allowed to read slides from home, apparently. But does it reduce risk that much if you're getting the slides and paperwork anyway? I guess you're protected if you're digitized, but that's another massive expense.

All these studies about how "the virus lives on paper for 4 days" don't help either - a lot of the studies don't say whether it's just detectable virus components (and thus not really infectious) or it's actually still infectious.

That’s the thing I question with all these studies on different surfaces. They are detecting ‘genetic material’. Viruses dry out very quickly and yeah there’s gonna be residue. But a virus needs an intact capsid to be infectious, does it not?

 

[yaah]

I think so, yes. All viruses are different I'm sure. But they aren't like spores that can sit dormant and become infectious later on. There has been a lot of study of the hepatitis viruses, maybe that's a good comparison but I don't know really.

 

[LADoc00]

Well, we are now allowed to read slides from home, apparently. But does it reduce risk that much if you're getting the slides and paperwork anyway? I guess you're protected if you're digitized, but that's another massive expense.

All these studies about how "the virus lives on paper for 4 days" don't help either - a lot of the studies don't say whether it's just detectable virus components (and thus not really infectious) or it's actually still infectious.

Is your group limiting bowel movements at work? I started intermittent fasting, seems to be helping. May do a pure water/coffee only fast to really cut down on BMs because sans regular exercise I fear chubby pathologists may start to appear everywhere and we now know that is one of the virus's favorite prey.

 

[WEBB PINKERTON]

I am wearing a PAPR when I take a dump at work.

There is literally no work to do right now. Roll into work a few nights a week.