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Q2 - Perspective: Individual consumer and resident of New York City. Not affiliated with any organization. A fuller version of this comment is attached. Q3 - Personal experience 3(a) Source: In 2019, four cellular antennas were installed on the roof of the building immediately adjacent to mine, approximately ten feet from my bedroom. They initially operated as 4G transmitters. In December 2019, T-Mobile activated 5G on the same site. 3(b) Timing/duration: I slept roughly eight hours a night in the room closest to the antennas. I was not notified of the installation and did not learn the antennas were there until after my symptoms began. I stopped sleeping in the apartment in January 2020 and formally moved out in April 2020. 3(c) Effects: After the antennas began 4G operation in 2019, I developed intense tinnitus, frequent headaches, and noticeable hair loss. In December 2019, when 5G was activated, a new symptom appeared: burns on my ears with no apparent cause - no sun, no heat source, no contact with anything that could explain them. 3(d) Onset relative to exposure: I had none of these symptoms before 2019. Tinnitus, headaches, and hair loss began during 4G operation. The ear burns appeared only when 5G was activated and had never occurred before. Two distinct changes in exposure at the site were each followed by a distinct change in my symptoms. Hair loss and burns resolved after I left. Tinnitus and headaches persist to this day. 3(e) Medical evaluation: My primary care physician had no explanation for the ear burns and asked whether I had been on vacation, though I had not traveled and sunburn confined to the ears made no sense. No cause was identified, no workup done, no diagnosis given. Tinnitus and headaches were never evaluated. Through my own research I later learned that localized burns are a recognized effect of sufficiently intense RF/microwave exposure and that close-range cell transmitters were a plausible source. My clinician had no framework for even considering RF exposure. That is itself a gap HHS should address. 3(f) Exposure reduction and results: Once I learned the antennas were there, I stopped sleeping in my bedroom and slept in my kitchen, the room farthest away. By January 2020 I had stopped living in the apartment; I moved out formally in April 2020. After leaving, tinnitus and headaches improved substantially but never fully resolved. They recur strongly whenever I am near an RF source and subside when I move away. My symptoms have tracked proximity to RF sources consistently since 2019. Being driven from my bedroom and then my home, with no recourse, was a serious hardship. 3(g) Documentation: I have dated photographs of the ear burns from December 2019 and can provide them on request. Q13(a): The 4G antennas alone were associated with tinnitus, headaches, and hair loss. Adding 5G at the same site and distance was followed by a new, different effect on my skin. HHS should treat adding 5G to an existing site as a change in exposure in its own right. Q15(a), 15(d), and Q9: Antennas were placed ten feet from a bedroom in a neighboring building with no notice and no assessment of exposure at the nearest occupied residence across the property line. Compliance evaluations address the host rooftop and ground level, not a bedroom at antenna height next door. HHS should recommend that exposure evaluation for new sites and upgrades consider the nearest occupied sleeping spaces in adjacent structures, that cumulative nighttime residential exposure be studied as its own category, and that residents be notified before installation or upgrade and be able to obtain frequencies, power output, and power density at their own dwelling. Q4(m) and Q16: HHS should prioritize (1) clinical guidance so primary care providers take an exposure history when patients present with unexplained localized burns, new-onset tinnitus, or headaches after nearby antenna installation or upgrade; (2) research on long-term close-range residential exposure to rooftop 4G and 5G infrastructure, including dermal effects, tinnitus, and headache, and why symptoms persist and recur after exposure ends; (3) a standing adverse-event reporting mechanism (Q10(f)). I appreciate HHS asking for the experiences of people who have lived next to this infrastructure and am willing to provide further detail on request.

We cannot continue to allow dangerous and harmful untested technologies in or near schools, homes, places where humans gather. We the people know it has nothing to do with faster internet speeds. And we are demanding that it stops.

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To whom it may concen I am glad that I get to share my story as I hope it will help with reform in regards to Emf and cell phone towers etc I grew up with a mother who was so sensitive to electrical outlets in the house that ahe had to sleep in the middle of the room on rhe floor to find releif. Fast forward to years later when I found her sleeping in a room where there was a wifi modum on the other side of the wall where she was sleeping. I asked her why she wasnt reactinf to the emf coming from it and she said since she had put 3 rather large obsidian crystals in front of it they had stopped bothering her. I thoufhr that was very interesting until a couple of months later she became very ill . Thats when I discovered that she had 4 golf ball sized tumora growing in her breast tissue. We had it biopsied and it was cancer. She died a week later. She was a very healthy grandmother who ate extremly well excercized and was very fit! Fast forward to 2020 and my husband who is also very healthy amd extremly fit with a great diet started to hve odd symptoms after qe had moved to a new house. He had installed about 8 wireleaa Sonos speakera in the house. My daughter and I couldnt sleep in the rooms that they were in. We have all our homes tested for wifi and emf levels and the levels before we moved in were great! Unfortunatly because each Sonos speaker has ita own Wifi built into each speaker the levels in our home went from nothing to Extremly Dangerous levels. My daughter and I had moved to Tahiti so that we could eacape all the Emf pollution in Calif and my husband commutes every month to see us One year later he developed Afib and had to have an ablatian. Two years later he developed prostate cancer! I just cant beleive that we arent able to protect ourselves or hve any sayso on where we live and the emf that invade our home!! Its just insane that we dont have any right to clean air and clean energy! We have since moved to yet another house and we just found out that we live across the street from 6 cell phone towers and an huge antena!! All if this while my husband it healing himself from a very significant disease! We are now looking at buying a 30 acre property in the mountains just so we can have some righta to clean energy free living! How is this legal in Usa??

I'm concerned about electromagnetic fields, radio frequency radiation, and wireless radiation exposure. A family member suddenly developed Havana Syndrome-like symptoms. There isn't a doctor in our large metropolitan area who is equipped to explain, evaluate, or treat these issues. Please do more research into this, provide doctors who can evaluate these issues, and protect Americans from any current or future harm being done.

Wireless is a crime...cuasibg all kinds of proven negative symptoms in the human body. How it ever came into existence is beyond comprehension.

They put up a cell tower at the local park. I sat very near it for a couple of hours. When I got home, I had a headache that lasted for 6 days. I don't get headaches, except around cell towers... repeated, and it happened again. I can't sleep well with Wi-Fi on at night. I turn it off. If I'm exposed for a long time during the day outside my house (don't use Wi-Fi) and then at home, I get extremely tired. I can wear EMF protective clothes; that's the only option. I've noticed that people with pre-existing conditions are affected symptomatically. Others may not feel the effects even though the frequencies affect mitochondrial cell function and metabolism. I know people that cannot function outside their house for long, due to EMF frequencies. The public is not given informed consent, and this has been ignored for years. What happened to the Precautionary Principle? There is a lot of research on this, so I won't attach it.

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of a [patient, parent, family member, caregiver, healthcare professional, researcher, advocate, concerned member of the public, or other]. I support HHS taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. Questions about human health should be addressed by federal agencies with appropriate expertise in medicine, biology, epidemiology, and public health, and the experiences of individuals and families who report being affected should be considered alongside the scientific evidence. I urge HHS to carefully evaluate these experiences and the scientific evidence, identify gaps in current research, give particular attention to children and other potentially vulnerable populations, and establish appropriate federal research priorities regarding wireless radiation and public health. Thank you for providing individuals and families with an opportunity to be heard.

I am overjoyed to see this forum, as well as the mycology / fungal awareness talk that was recently held by this administration. I am sorry to hear that RFK Jr’s son was affected by mold growth. I was a healthy active contributing member of society until I developed CIRS, Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, while working and living in moldy buildings for several years. When we found out it was mold & mycotoxins (from water-damaged buildings = WDB) we were shocked, as I did not learn this was even a possibility in medical school. We were only taught severely immunocompromised individuals were susceptible to mold illness (unless it was an allergy) This simply isn’t true. I was not immunocompromised, nor was I on steroids or any other meds that affect the immune system. I am also not allergic to mold. Yet I became so ill that I had anaphylaxis, and a multitude of other issues, and I am still fighting for my life almost 10 years later. What I want to see studied is the effects of EMFs, WiFi, 5G… on the growth (possible rapid growth increase) of mold in WDB. This must be evaluated due to the recent explosion in CIRS cases, in addition to what usually follows CIRS: MCAS, dysautonomia/POTS and other conditions that are all very difficult to diagnose & treat and are devastating to patients & families! I thank you for this work & wish you Godspeed, as I see people every day with CIRS & MCAS who are questioning staying alive due to the severity of their symptoms. As a former health care professional this is heartbreaking and there is so much to research about why there is so much more mold & so many CIRS patients when compared to just 5 years ago. Many think it is merely awareness about EMFs etc., but I have been near towers & in buildings where I can feel my neurological symptoms heightening as I go in the building. This is so devastating to people just trying to heal in a clean environment. I know as I’ve been working on that for many years now. I hope this research is within the scope of this department, as the research out there now about EMFs etc. affecting mold growth is conflicting & thus not very helpful to determine if that’s part of why mold is accelerating in its growth in homes with water damage. Thank you for this opportunity.