Standing early Saturday morning under a bus shelter at Pennsylvania and North avenues, near the epicenter of Thursday’s mass overdose that sent at least 27 people to the hospital, Elijah Bradley said resources have flooded into the community over the last two days.

Near him, naloxone was strewn on the street, wedged in a chain-link fence, tucked in a drawstring bag and spread on folding tables outside the Penn North Metro stop.

But Bradley said the streets were quieter than usual, and he wondered if the people who most needed the support were receiving it.

Increased police activity was keeping some away, he said, while others remained shaken by what they’d witnessed.

“After that day, nobody come up like they usually do,” said the 38-year-old, who is in recovery.

Across the street, a man sat hunched in a wheelchair and a barefoot woman lay on her back across a city bench.

Bradley said it was only a matter of time before the help disappeared and streets would look as they did before.

“I’d give it like a week or so,” Bradley said.

At least 27 people had been taken to hospitals for overdose treatment as of Friday, authorities said. Seven were in critical condition and 15 in serious, but not life-threatening, condition. There have been no fatalities, officials said.

First responders flooded the Penn North neighborhood shortly after 9 a.m. Thursday to find more than a dozen people in need of aid. The Baltimore City Health Department closed half a block to treat people outside the Pratt Library branch, which remained closed Friday.

The emotional impact of Thursday’s events lingered for Penn North residents such as Lavard Lewis.

The 61-year-old was on his way to a dental appointment when he saw people dropping in the street, overdosing near a bus stop, in an alley and on the sidewalk.

“It brought a tear to my eye to see people that you see every day laying on the ground,” Lewis said. “These were grown people, over their 50s, laying on the ground, gasping for air. It really shook me up.”

By midmorning Saturday, a group of men with Powell Recovery Center sat under a pop-up tent on North Avenue, offering water and resources for housing, medical care and drug recovery.

Terrance Lunn, a training manager with the center, said Thursday’s incident forced people to notice what Penn North residents experience every day.

But he feared the attention wouldn’t last.

“This is the news today,” Lunn said. “Next week, it’ll be something else. Are we going to forget Penn North?”

Officials said they’re investigating what led to the overdoses.

Mayor Brandon Scott said police will use surveillance to deal with people who are bringing drugs into the city but stressed that he’s focused on diverting more resources to communities.

Patricia Cooper, a 72-year-old volunteering in Penn North on Saturday, said that while the scale of Thursday’s mass overdose incident was striking, drug use is a problem “day in, day out in this community.”

She and other volunteers handed out clothes, food and water Saturday and have had to step up in Penn North for years because politicians have long ignored the community.

“You don’t feel like anyone is in your corner,” Cooper said.

She has noticed a surge of media attention and visits from local elected officials over the past couple of days.

Cooper hoped they’d come back “when we’re not in the news.”