Alicia Skarimbas MD

Family Doctor in Englewood, NJ. Georgetown Ass’t Professor of Family Medicine. FAAFP. CMD. Barnard/Vassar/Pitt Med

[Alicia Skarimbas MD @ASkarimbas]

Spread the word.
We have two weeks to prepare
General Strike!!

[Alicia Skarimbas MD @ASkarimbas]

General Strike!!
2/14/25
We have two weeks to get ready. One thing I learned during Covid: “essential workers“ can close everything down if we don’t show up
Mass “Covid outbreak“.
Everybody needs to isolate for five days.
Everyone can safely protest from home.

[Alicia Skarimbas MD @ASkarimbas]

Wait til they run out of toilet paper

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

In economics, a “free rider” takes advantage of a benefit without contributing to it. If population safety from disease is the benefit, made possible by vaccinations, the anti-vaxxers are “free riders” who want the benefit without contributing by getting vaccinated.

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Hey UNITED HEALTHCARE

[Gerard Hughes ( @ghhughes.bsky.social ) @ghhughes]

Do N95s and KN95s filter viruses?

Yes.

Here's an electron microscope image of salt particles on the fibes of a KN95 by @zhouliang_mask.

The image is of a NIOSH-type salt loading test of the melt blown filter media used in Zimi 9541.

The "big" crystals are about 1.5 microns. The smaller captured particles are as small viruses like Covid.

Covid virions are about .07 microns, are expelled into the air in larger respiratory droplets.

https://t.co/uoO2UmxNdA

[Alicia Skarimbas MD @ASkarimbas]

@NickKristof I tried to feel bad about his execution. I am a very moral and rules-based person.

But watching my patients constantly get screwed! having generic prescriptions denied! Chemo denied!

I only felt a sense of long overdue justice being served when I saw the clip

[Alicia Skarimbas MD @ASkarimbas]

@alwayslearni @ThatCat_TC @OliviaTroye @MarkSZaidEsq @jimstewartson “You’re”

[Doc  @DocAtCDI]

This isn’t a simple disagreement, like whether pineapple belongs on pizza. We could agree to disagree about that and still be friends. But this is different. By supporting Trump, you told me—and the people I love—that you want families like mine destroyed. You told me you’re okay with women being forced to carry dead or nonviable pregnancies even at the cost of their own lives. You told me that people who love each other shouldn’t be allowed to marry unless it fits your approval.

You didn’t just share a preference for a different color or taste. You told me you believe a man with 34 felony charges, twice impeached, laughed at by the world, who stole classified information, and was found liable for sexual assault, is a better choice than a woman of color who happens to laugh in a way you find strange.

You told me you support someone who advocates for locking up people deemed “un-American,” even if that means real Americans could be caught in the purge. You stand by someone who wants to arrest and imprison anyone who disagrees with him—all so you might save 50 cents on a dozen eggs.

You’ve shown me your morality.

You’ve shown me your soul is for sale.

You’ve shown me who you are.

[Tommy Siegel @TommySiegel]

a thread of some of my dumbest bird-related comics of late

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

This is a man who meticulously documented his sexual conquests with hundreds of women while married, crudely rating each encounter on a scale of 1 to 10 based on the intimacy achieved. His wife discovered his journal—a testament to his infidelity and depravity—and in her despair, hung herself. This is not just a man devoid of moral compass, but a dangerous individual whose actions have left a trail of devastation. Seeking any form of advice from him, let alone medical advice, is akin to dancing with the devil; it's reckless, ill-advised, and potentially disastrous.

[Dr Graham Lloyd-Jones @DrGrahamLJ]

Here's a reminder of my take on #COVID-19 (the disease not the pandemic).

It's not what you think it is ...

A thread 👇
1/23

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Dr. Oz: The uninsured “don’t have the right to health,” but should be given “a way of crawling back out of the abyss” with “15-minute physicals” provided by the government “in a festival like setting.”

[toomas hendrik ilves @IlvesToomas]

All indicators point to Russia on the verge of economic collapse. If the incoming administration wants to rid the west of this terrorist state it can do this in short order.

Agree with the Saudis to drop the price of oil and you wipe out Russia AND the other state terrorist, Iran.

[🇬🇷Eᴘɪʀᴜs•Mᴀᴄᴇᴅᴏɴɪᴀ•Tʜʀᴀᴄᴇ🇬🇷✨🫒 @greece_northern]

Arachova 🇬🇷

📸Alexandros Mantzourogiannis

[Alicia Skarimbas MD @ASkarimbas]

@MikeCrispi @AndyKimNJ @tedlieu He is a good American
Twice the public servant you’ll ever be. You side with insurrectionists

[Gary Swafford @angelique1z]

The movie led me to the Moravia book long ago, which is wonderful.

[Ron Barbosa MD FACS @rbarbosa91]

For any given operation, there is a window in which one has performed enough of them to feel confidence in doing them, but not enough to have seen the rarer complications.

In other words, the confidence comes before the fear; this is why we talk about these things a lot.