STI Awareness Week, which ends April 20, has put a renewed spotlight on Philadelphia’s status as first in the country when it comes to sexually transmitted infection rates. That’s according
COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have spiked in the first two weeks of 2013. The increases are attributed to holiday gatherings and the emergences of a new omicron subvariant, XBB.1.5., that the World Health Organization has called the most transmissible yet. Philly health officials do not plan to implement any new COVID-19 restrictions.