The Philadelphia Department of Public Health is an American municipal government department in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It provides public health services for the City of Philadelphia.
History
On May 14, 2021, the Department enacted a regulation titled "Emergency Regulation for the Control and Prevention of COVID-19 Supplementing the Regulation Governing the Immunization and Treatment of Newborns, Children and Adolescents."
On November 1, 2023, Children's Health Defense filed a lawsuit against the Department "concerning allegations that the City was vaccinating young children against COVID-19 without parental consent."[1]
External links
Malfitano, N. (2024, January 10). Philly argues that RFK Jr.-chaired nonprofit’s case against COVID child vax measures should be dismissed. Pennsylvania Record. http://archive.today/2024.01.11-184515/https://pennrecord.com/stories/653627155-philly-argues-that-rfk-jr-chaired-nonprofit-s-case-against-covid-child-vax-measures-should-be-dismissed ↩︎
