carrier Vodafone UK, said on LinkedIn. “It’s even
more upsetting that even the small solace of a
phone or video call may now be denied them
because of the selfish actions of a few deluded
conspiracy theorists.”
False narratives around 5G and the coronavirus
have been shared hundreds of thousands
of times on social media. They vary widely
from claims that the coronavirus is a coverup
for 5G deployment to those that say new 5G
installations have created the virus.
“To be concerned that 5G is somehow driving
the COVID-19 epidemic is just wrong,” Dr.
Jonathan Samet, dean of the Colorado School
of Public Health who chaired a World Health
Organization committee that researched cell
phone radiation and cancer. “I just don’t find any
plausible way to link them.”
Anti-5G activists are undeterred.
Susan Brinchman, director of the Center
for Electrosmog Prevention, a nonprofit
campaigning against “environmental
electromagnetic pollution,” says that people
have a right to be concerned about 5G and
links to COVID-19. “The entire 5G infrastructure
should be dismantled and turned off,” she
said by email.
But there’s no evidence that wireless
communications - whether 5G or earlier versions
- harm the immune system, said Myrtill Simko,
scientific director of SciProof International in
Sweden, who has spent decades researching
the matter.
The current wave of 5G theories dates back to
January, when a Belgian doctor suggested a link