Philadelphia officials are trying to keep the homeless safe during COVID-19 pandemic. FOX 29's JoAnn Pileggi reports. PHILADELPHIA - The city’s unsheltered population of several thousand is not immune to the menacing spread of COVID-19.
City officials are working with countless nonprofits to help protect them."This is not an easy issue as I’m talking to colleagues across the country, both the county and the city level, all of us are struggling with it to understand," the city's managing director Brian Abernathy said. FULL COVERAGE: CORONAVIRUS While dealing with a host of other challenges in a pandemic, city officials say they are working with the 60 plus nonprofits in the homeless system to try to educate the city’s homeless, mentally ill