Thyroid cytology in the times of coronavirus

Before the outbreak of a novel coronavirus-associated acute respiratory disease called coronavirus disease 19 (COVID19), fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy was considered “routine” in the initial screening of patients with a thyroid nodule.1 The role of cytopathologists was clear, deeply rooted in decades of diagnostic practice. Cytopathologists could run the FNA clinic; they could perform not only free-hand sampling of palpable thyroid...