18 April 2020: College Fellow and Philadelphia Health Commissioner Thomas Farley, MD, MPH, discusses why Philadelphia will not be reopening soon (Source: 6 ABC)
City leaders said Friday that there are no plans to reopen Philadelphia in the near future as the coronavirus battle continues.
17 April 2020: College Fellow and Trustee, Paul Offit, MD, appears on WHYY’s RadioTimes about unlocking the novel cornoavirus (Source: WHYY)
We discuss what makes the novel coronavirus such an effective and dangerous pathogen in the human body and the race to develop a vaccine against it.
24 March 2020: Former Director of the Mütter Museum Robert Hicks, PhD, spoke to WHYY about the exhibition and the 1918 flu pandemic (Source: WHYY)
Why the 1918 flu pandemic hit Philadelphia especially hard and what we can take from it today during the COVID-19 outbreak.
24 March 2020: College Fellow Paul Offit, MD, was interviewed by Healthy NewsWork student reporters from Norristown for Health Beat Live (Source: Healthy News Works)
21 March 2020: College Fellow Walter Tsou, MD, MPH, was interviewed by Healthy NewsWork student reporters from Norristown for Health Beat Live (Source: Healthy News Works)
20 March 2020: President and CEO Dr. George Wohlreich talked to KYW about the importance of social distancing and what we can learn from the 1918 flu pandemic (Source: KYW)
We don’t hear a lot about the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic. At least, we didn’t until COVID-19 started being the only thing we talked about. But there’s a lot we can learn from what was “almost certainly the worst plague in human history,” according to George Wohlreich, President and Chief Executive Officer of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Wohlreich joins KYW In Depth to tell us what happened back then and what we’ve learned from it.
18 March 2020: College Fellow and infectious disease specialist Dr. Harvey Rubin offers some insight into the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that’s impacting the world
11 March 2020: Museum Manager Nancy Hill was interviewed about Spit Spreads Death for a story about steps Philadelphia leaders are taking to address COVID-19 (Source: CBS 3)
Philadelphia leaders have activated the city’s Emergency Operations Center amid the coronavirus outbreak, which is now a global pandemic.
