Children & vulnerable groups

Hi. I personally know TEN different people who have severe physical reactions to emissions from cell phones, cell towers and smart meters -- heart-throbbing, headaches, and mental confusion, to name a few. So my knowledge of this is not merely from studies. And I would like to offer this very personal experience with one of my students and wi-fi. My student’s parents have agreed to tell her story, hoping it will be helpful, not only in banning cellphone use in schools, but in getting the wi-fi turned off in our schools as well. I have no wi-fi in my house. All my computer stuff is hard-wired, and I ask all my students to turn off their phones when they’re in my house. I’ve been teaching private piano lessons for 46 years, and have worked with students of all ages and personalities. Recently I got a new 12-year-old student. To protect her identity, I’ll call her Gretchen. At our first lesson, Gretchen was sullen. She kept slouching, and I kept having to ask her to sit up straight. She wouldn’t sing the letter-names of the notes with me, and didn’t talk to me except to say, “I’m CONFUSED.” She never smiled, and she acted like she wanted to be somewhere else. It was a very long, very difficult half hour. About 20 minutes into the lesson, I asked Gretchen if it was her idea or her parents’ idea that she take lessons. I told her I would support her, and talk to her parents if she didn’t want to take lessons. She told me it was her idea. I told her I would talk with her father and tell him my thoughts. When I talked to her father he said would talk to Gretchen. The next week, Gretchen’s father said Gretchen really wanted to take lessons, and that he told her she needed to cooperate with me. However, Gretchen acted the same way she did at the first lesson. She seemed very unhappy. Gretchen’s mom picked her up after the second lesson, so I talked with her, and told her Gretchen seems like she really doesn’t want to take lessons. Her mom started to cry. She said, “I’m trying to get her interested in something.” I said, “Does she use a cell phone?” “I took it away from her. She was in another world when she was using the phone.” “What about her classmates? Are they acting the same way?” “Her teacher says he has this trouble with all his students, but Gretchen is the worst.” I asked Tony Keppelman, my EMF colleague, what I could offer this family. He said, “Tell them to turn off the wi-fi for two weeks when Gretchen’s in the house.” I said, “But she has wi-fi in school.” He said, “Well, at least it won’t be 24/7.” I made the suggestion to Gretchen’s dad, and the very next week Gretchen was more cooperative during her lesson. I told her dad afterwards that the lesson was better. I asked him if he had turned off the wi-fi. He said, “Yes.” “And how is Gretchen at home?” “Better!” It’s now several weeks later, and Gretchen is a completely different person. She’s pleasant, she smiles, she talks to me, she sits up straight the whole time, and she doesn’t say, “I’m CONFUSED” anymore. This may not be “scientific” evidence, but it is real. It is not in the imagination of Gretchen, her parents, her teacher, or me. It’s no secret that I have been a long-time, whole-hearted supporter of banning cellphone use and turning off the wi-fi in schools and in homes. More evidence: One of my friends teaches pre-kindergarten, and she says that last fall her four-year-olds acted like three-year-olds. One wasn’t even potty-trained. He came outside without his pants on. Sincerely, Carol Kuzdenyi

Better real-world personal and environmental dosimetry is needed to characterize actual cumulative exposure from phones, Wi-Fi, base stations, IoT, and emerging sources rather than relying solely on worst-case or compliance-test scenarios. Standardized methods for population-level monitoring would strengthen future epidemiological research and public communication. Federal Research Priorities Highest-value gaps include: Long-term prospective studies of childhood and adolescent exposure with objective exposure assessment. Improved characterization of multi-source, real-world cumulative exposure. Independent replication and clarification of animal findings at environmentally relevant levels. Transparent, high-quality systematic reviews that fully address methodological concerns raised about recent WHO-commissioned work. Coordination across NIH, FDA, CDC, and FCC so research informs both health guidance and exposure standards.

I recently loved about 700 meterers from a 5g and a cell tower. Within a month of moving into the house I started experiencing insomnia, brain fog, legacy, and overall feelings of pain. I eat very healthy and could not understand the sudden change. Within two months I got eczema on the back of the my neck and it began spreading to my face. I’ve never had eczema before in my life. I assumed there was mold in the house but upon further investigation there was none. We live on a mountain in a wooded area so the towers were not obvious upon moving in. These towers have greatly impacted my health and unfortunately they are directly by my house. I am a stay at home mom and feel sick about not being 100 percent for my kids and the risks they now face.

I had a baby with SEVERE full body eczema. While pregnant with this baby we installed a WiFi direct security service in our house. All first floor windows and doors. Upon hearing WiFi radiation may be part of the eczema problem, we shut it off. He had about a 40% reduction in his red, violent eczema and severe hives within the week. My husband and I also noticed we started dreaming again as soon as the WiFi direct signals were turned off. Nothing else changed except the security system being turned off. No diet or medical intervention changes. This is being submitted anonymously simply because I am mentioning a minor and a security system being tuned off.

EMF’s are a legitimate concern to human health. The practice of grounding counters the negative effects to some degree. Many including myself have begun grounding while we sleep and experienced multiple positive benefits. I’m especially concerned about the deleterious brain development effects of EMFs on children, whose skulls are thinner and whose brains are more vulnerable. 5G is bad enough. 6G is coming. We cannot continue to allow the EMF bombardment of the populace and especially children in schools or who live close to towers without doing thorough and meaningful safety studies.

I am writing this because I believe we have passed the danger zone regarding EMFs, RF and wireless radiation exposure. The public has been misled for many years about these subjects and is not aware of the long-term exposure risk. Many years ago Dr George Carlo was hired by the cell phone industry to study the safety of RF and wireless radiation exposure. He did not deliver what they wanted and they canceled his study because he found over whelming evidence of detrimental effects of long-term exposures. To name a few of the effects, he found molecular, cellular, and genetic changes to our biology. There also was a 2018 toxology study that reported that nonionizing radiation is considered a class 2B carcinogen. EMFs now fill our environment with RF constantly due to all of the following: towers, satellites, antennas, radio, TV, military radar, smartphones, bluetooth, smartmeters, powerlines and motors. It is now impossible to live your life without being subjected to all of these RF producing devices. For those of us that have hypersensitivity to EMFs and RF there is no refuge. I have been unable to find any conventional medical doctor that has any knowledge on this subject and they have no idea how my sensitivity has affected my health. I have been suffering with this sensitivity for almost 4 years. I took a PUB Med Study (PMID 32289567) from the United States government website on hypersensitivity to 3 medical doctors. They had no knowledge of this information and denied my symptoms were caused by it. My husband has spent over $25,000 to protect my home environment (mostly on special shielding paint that blocks WiFi from entering our home) so that I can at least live somewhat comfortably in our home. I have also found an alternative doctor who understands my sensitivity and how it is affecting my health. With my sensitivity it is very painful to go outside my home, especially when I have to go to doctors' appointments since doctor's offices are now all high tech and everyone in the waiting room has their iphone on. It is a nightmare to find yourself in this position. I believe a lot more people will develop my sensitivity if we do not put the brakes on this expanding wireless exposure. They need to recognize hypersensitivity to RF as a disability so we can access public health treatments. Also, children are now saturated with RF from birth. The elderly, babies, children and the auto immune population are in the compromised and vulnerable group. I was auto immune before 1996 when the FCC planned to put this technology into our environment without long-term health risk studies.This grates me as my situation could have been averted had I known the long-term health risks because I would have made better choices and taken precautions when using cellphones and other devices that created RF. I cannot find the words to express how uncomfortable this is to make my story heard, as the dismissal and the cognitive disbelief is so prevalent by those who are not affected.

My sister-in-law has suffered from EMS since her school installed a super wi-fi system to power tablets for all students. As a result, she had to take disability since she could no longer work in the school environment without suffering severe symptoms. This was over 12 years ago and despite everything she has done to mitigate her exposure to wi-fi, cell services, radar, and more, her entire life has never been the same. Since reading more articles about the adverse effects of 5G and other radiation fields, we no longer allow our grandchildren to use wireless services or cell phones. The impact on our health needs to be better studied as it has been in Europe and elsewhere.

I am a retired RN Emergency room nurse for over 45 years. I was a photographer for many years and began full time after I retired. In order to processes my prints, I used lightroom classic on my home computer. Medically I have had intermittent vertigo spells for over 20 years which I have kept managed with physical therapy and other. In 2024 I was struggling to processes my prints on my computer with a new processing system I had obtained. Due to spending hours working on my prints, I had noticed every time I worked on my computer, I became dizzy, agitated with profound nausea and vertigo episodes. I discussed this with my neurologist why this might be happening to me? The reason was uncertain, but I was told to take many breaks away from the computer screen and return later to finish. At a later date we had computer problems and hired a computer expert to come and fix our system. The Tech noted that we had our Wi-Fi router sitting right behind our computer screen, he told us to move this to possibly help my symptoms. We then paid over 2000 dollars, to have our house hard wired to decrease our exposure to RF radiation after hours of research. I immediately felt improvement and was able to use the computer for hours with absolutely no dizziness, vertigo agitation or nausea. Since then, we had purchased a TriField EMF meter, model TF2 to analyze our exposure in our home, very low exposure was noted. We then went out and took readings of local cell towers and were horrified at the RF radiation that was emitting from these cell sites and surrounding homes. Many of these towers were located near or on school property, daycares and neighborhoods. Minden for safe tech was started with locals, and we hired a lawyer and RF specialist to fight Verizon from placing a tower 210 feet from our largest and voted best daycare in Minden. (85 out of 105 parents signed a petition to stop this) Minden for safe tech has spent thousands of dollars of our own money to stop cell towers placement in sensitive areas in Minden. TO DATE there has NEVER been any safety testing done to see if RF exposure harms children. The FCC was sued in 2021 for basically having a 30-year-old outdated inadequate study on humans and to this date they are still not producing any studies of human exposure to RF radiation. Verizon is being sued in California for 7.7 million dollars for NOT maintaining and controlling cell sites for HAZARDOUS WASTE. As a nurse for over 45 years, I am completely flabbergasted that the citizens of America are being exposed to dangerous levels of RF radiation without current studies or regulations to keep these cell towers at a safe distance from sensitive areas. In 2021 11,000 pages of studies from around the world were entered in the 2021 federal court hearing, stating RF exposure did cause harm, and cancer rates increased along with many other health concerns. WHY HAS THIS NOT BEEN ADDRESSED?? Cell phones are emitting RF radiation along with our Wi-fi units but we can personally mitigate all these exposures ourselves like my husband and I did, but a cell tower emits continuous RF radiation 24/7 to all that live close to a tower and nothing they do can mitigate the RF radiation coming from those towers. This is hideous that the FCC does this and has no concern for the public. The FCC can sue local government if they do not allow cell towers to be installed in their community. I am sorry how would you like it if nurses did not look out for your best interest and safety??? This is completely inconceivable to me again as a nurse to have had patient safety pounded into my head to protect you the public and yet the FCC can pillage over the public without any safe guidelines for the RF radiation exposure we all receive. THEIR SAFETY STUDIES ARE 30 YEARS OUTDATED please do something about this! The FCC is running amok across the United States erecting these dangerous cell towers with no one supervising their installation for safety and environmental hazards. The FCC regulations are outdated and unsafe, yet they communicate to our local governments that they follow safe FCC guidelines. How come we cannot deny a local cell tower location due to health or environmental issues then? The FCC was given a pass on this! I find this completely unreasonable, unsafe and preferential treatment for the FCC and an enormous disparity for the public and our children. I challenge the FCC to do a complete safety study on people living under 2000 feet near a cell tower and see that the cases of Cancer can increase up to 17% as studies in Iseral and Germany had documented along with other health concerns ignored by the FCC. Disgraceful! Please regulate cell tower distance from sensitive areas and REQUIRE the FCC to do current safety testing on humans. The FCC cannot run amok! There is so much evidence out there that RF exposure causes harm from around the world please look into it. Thank-you for this chance voice our concerns.

HHS I fully support the petition by the Children's Health Defense organization to the HHS to further research and investigate the effects on electromagnetic radiation exposure (EMF) on the human body, particularly young children. It has been many decades since serious research has been done on this subject. I strongly urge the HHS to respond to the CHD petition! This is an urgent health issue that needs to be addressed immediately! Libba Moore Upton, MA

HHS I fully support the petition by the Children's Health Defense organization to the HHS to further research and investigate the effects on electromagnetic radiation exposure (EMF) on the human body, particularly young children. It has been many decades since serious research has been done on this subject. I strongly urge the HHS to respond to the CHD petition! This is an urgent health issue that needs to be addressed immediately! Peter Phillips Upton, MA