Addressing this question wasn’t very easy from a non-fictional and/or scientific perspective. Nobody within the Philadelphia Department of Public Health felt confident offering comments on account of a lack of experience with such situations.
https://www.phillyvoice.com/everything-you-wanted-know-about-steel-furnace-letter-were-afraid-ask/
By Brian Hickey
It’s also true that we may know more information soon. As of May 2018, the city has deployed 50 new air monitors — including a number in North Philadelphia — towards a new initiative called the Philadelphia Air Quality Survey. Garrow explains this new survey is designed to track some of the neighborhood-specific air quality data that’s proven elusive. Although the first set of data won’t be made public until late 2019 at the earliest.
https://ecowurd.com/2019/03/02/just-how-bad-is-the-air-hurting-phillys-black-families/
By Malcolm Burnley
Donald Carter, 69, of West Philadelphia, a well-known and beloved activist in the gay community, died Monday, Feb. 25, of heart disease at his apartment, the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s office said.
By Bonnie Cook
Inquirer
“The vaccine is still our best prevention tool,” said Kristen Feemster, medical director of the Philadelphia health department’s acute communicable disease and immunization programs. “The most important thing students can do now is make sure they’re up to date on their MMR shots.”
https://www.philly.com/health/mumps-temple-university-outbreak-contagious-disease-20190301.html
By Aneri Pattani
Fox29
Students were surprised to know as many as seven cases have been confirmed so far, according to the Philadelphia Department of Public Health.
http://www.fox29.com/news/officials-7-temple-university-students-test-positive-for-mumps
NBC10 1
The city’s health department also would not comment on Williams’ status, but said in a statement that “all the victims who have come forward are being offered the appropriate counseling and medical care.”
“We urge anyone who has been the victim of sexual assault to seek the proper medical care,” a spokesman for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health said in an emailed statement.
By Alicia Lozano
NBC10 2
The Philadelphia Department of Public Health did not comment on the Williams case, but said in a statement that “all the victims who have come forward are being offered the appropriate counseling and medical care.”
By Alicia Lozano
The Philadelphia Health Department says soda consumption among teens has been dropping dramatically.
In Tuesday’s report, the city says between 2015 and 2017 the proportion of teens drinking soda weekly in Philadelphia dropped by 10 percent, as compared to just two percent nationally.
There was an 18 percent drop in Philadelphia teens drinking soda daily and a 30 percent drop in teens who drank three or more a day.
https://6abc.com/food/soda-consumption-among-philly-teens-dropping-dramatically-report-says/5158956/
“We know [health] is about environment, but we want to make it about will power because that’s somebody else’s problem,” Dr. Cheryl Bettigole from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health said.
By Alicia Victoria Lozano and Mitch Blacher
“For comparison,” says Philadelphia Health Commissioner Tom Farley, “at the peak of the AIDS epidemic in 1994, we had 935 deaths from AIDS.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/opioid-epidemic-sif-harm-reduction/
By Maia Szalavitz
Despite the family’s years of lobbying for a second forensic examination by the medical examiner, James Garrow, a spokesman for the city’s Department of Public Health, said there was not enough new information for the office to reopen the investigation into Malik’s death.
By Vinny Vella
“The best we can say is not to use a lot,” said Allison Herens, the city’s harm reduction coordinator. “The chemical makeup is so unpredictable. So we say, ‘Use a little bit, see how you feel, take it with people [around you], stay hydrated.’”
By Jason Laughlin and Aubrey Whelan
The Collected Works of Jim Garrow 