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
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
“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
Fox 29
the Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the manner of death accidental and the cause of death to be a sharp injury to the abdomen.
By Kelly Rule
Patch
The Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office ruled Ortega’s death an accident with the cause being sharp injury to the abdomen.
https://patch.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/boy-4-dies-after-being-impaled-glass-philadelphia-police
By Max Bennett
CBS3
Sources tell Eyewitness News the medical examiner has ruled Adrian Ortega’s death an accident.
And the City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health recently launched a new sexual health marketing campaign to promote the HIV prevention pill called “Philly, Keep On Loving.”
“With an HIV rate four times the national rate, increasing the use of PrEP is necessary to end the HIV epidemic in Philadelphia,” stated Dr. Kathleen Brady, medical director and medical epidemiologist for the Department’s AIDS Activities Coordinating Office (AACO) in a news release.
By Ayana Jones
The Collected Works of Jim Garrow 