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Megan E. Doherty, PhD
@MeganEDoherty
Recovering Academic — Writer. Photographer. Rabbit person. Out of spoons//Only knives left.
Mar 24, 2025 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
Illinois had a chance to advance the nation's first right-to-mask legislation last week. But the Committee Chair wouldn't call it. Here's what happened, and what you can do right now 🧵 While the original version of HB3853: The Protective Medical Equipment Freedom Act did not have the votes to move forward out of Committee, we worked incredibly hard to draft amendments with stakeholders to get the necessary votes to call the bill.
Mar 17, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Disability advocates in Illinois are trying to codify the right to wear medical masks/respirators across the state. Help us make sure this forward-thinking bill becomes first-in-the-nation law: fill out a proponent witness slip! And you don't need to live in IL to do it 🧵 Our hearing is this week, but as we still do not know which day HB3853 will have its hearing, we are asking everyone to submit a witness slip for BOTH potential days, meaning you will submit two separate witness slip forms. docs.google.com/document/u/2/d…
Mar 27, 2024 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I spoke with @WBEZreset and @thrasherxy this morning about being immunocompromised in the on-going pandemic, being abandoned by society and our public health institutions, how we deserve safe access to healthcare—and what @CareNotCOVIDChi is trying to do about it. The current state of affairs is not inevitable. This is all a consequence of policy choices. When gov't/CDC/healthcare facilities decided to abandon the protection of universal masking—that was a choice. And people are mobilizing because it was the wrong choice.
Dec 21, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The group I co-lead @CareNotCOVIDChi helped organize this protest + mask distribution event. Thanks to @BlockClubCHI for covering!

@IDPH + @WHO now recommend universal masking in healthcare facilities, so why aren't most Chicago hospitals requiring them? Recommendations are a great first step. But hospitals should not be able to opt-out of lifesaving infection control. COVID transmission is rated "high" in Cook Co., but @UIHealth @NorthwesternMed etc, still allow most staff and patients to spread asymptomatic COVID to others.