EMFs and Covid-19 — are there Correlations?

by Klaus Heinemann

EMFs and Covid-19 — are there Correlations?

(12/18/2021)

When you google about a conceivable correlation between 5G communication technology and Covid-19 incidence, you find a multitude of links expressing opinions against the notion of such a correlation. Many are outright hostile and label any person who might be seriously entertaining the mere subject as an uninformed conspirator — so much so that we feel intimidated to even bring up the question. But you find also objective voices that express a genuine concern, such as here (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/study-finds-possible-connection-between-covid-symptoms-and-5g/) or here (https://www.nutritruth.org/single-post/study-finds-5g-technology-a-significant-factor-in-higher-covid-case-and-death-rates).

Of course, we understand that this is a super-highly controversial topic. A huge amount of expensive investment, technology, industry, financing, and employment livelihood is involved in the sacrosanct wireless communications sector. Consequently, any criticism of any technology in this field is stonewalled with utmost skepticism, often extending into outright hostility. More than a billion world citizens are happy users of this type of technology, and tens of millions derive their livelihood from it.

Nonetheless, the question is legitimate and must be asked. In this White Paper we humbly ask if there is any obvious connection between electromagnetic stray fields (EMFs) from wireless communication technology and Covid-19 infections. We will not go into the technical argumentation itself, if — or to what extent — EMFs are a health hazard. We rather leave this to the combatants themselves. Instead, we tackle the question from a very different, a statistical angle. We look at the distribution of Covid incidences around the globe and look for regional correlations between low and high Covid rates and low and high implementations and use of EMF-producing technologies.

Map 1: Cumulative Covid-19 incidences per capita as of 12/15/2021 (source New York Times). The deeper red the color, the higher is the rate of incidence.

In late 2020, at the height of the second wave of the pandemic, a Swiss friend sent us a video with the ominous title “Rush Hours.” It shows masses of people in different population centers of the world like you may have never seen it. Incredible crowds in and on top of trains in Bangladesh; in Tokyo, railroad station platform attendants use all the muscle power they can muster to push people into the trains, so the doors can close; incredible masses of people literally fight their entry into trains in Mumbai; and we have ourselves experienced unfathomable crowds in and around Chennai, Istanbul, Alexandria, Rio de Janeiro and other population centers in somewhat lesser developed countries in this suffocating world.

Map 2: Implementation of 5G wireless communication technology as of March 2020. (Source https://www.worldtimezone.com/5g.html).

How can it be, we ask ourselves, that in many of these hopelessly overpopulated urban areas, where even the mere thought of any meaningful “interpersonal distancing” amounts to utter utopia, the Covid-19 infection rates are so much lower than in highly developed Western countries?

Compare maps 1 and 2. In Map 1, darker red signifies higher per capita Covid incidences. For example, the entire African continent stands out with a light color, indicating a low rate of Covid incidences. In contrast, Europe and the United are in dark to very dark red, indicating high Covid incidences. In Map 2, darker colors denote higher implementation and longer use of 5G wireless technology, Note that the African continent is almost entirely green, meaning that so far, only the lower intensity 3G and 4G wireless communication technologies are found there. Purple circles, showing the longest use and highest density of 5G technology, are found in the United States and the UK. To a surprising degree, highest 5G implementation matches highest rates of Covid incidences, and vice versa, in many countries. Look at specific countries within the highly developed western world, like Norway: 5G has not yet taken hold there, and the Covid incidence rate is low. Does this suggest a correlation? I submit that, at minimum, it gives rise to further examination.

Yes, there are certain countries where a correlation is less obvious. But there are other factors that can be argued in some of those countries. Take, for example, Australia and New Zealand. There we know that the governments were exceedingly strict to curtail the spread of Covid at the very onset of the pandemic, by successfully implementing drastic lock-down measures. Take China, where we really don’t know how severely the government imposed on their citizens to comply with restrictions.

Several years ago, long before the Covid pandemic, I became active in a group of German physicians (the “Open Mind Academy” — OMA) who worked on the side effects of electromagnetic stray fields (EMFs). The OMA group established that there is a detrimental effect of EMFs on weakening the immune system. We actually promoted and facilitated sanatorium stays in EMF-free environments to boost general well-being. 

On 6 April 2020, fifteen renowned German university professors, medical doctors and scientists, including some of the former OMA members, published an Open Letter addressed to the Government of Germany and Chancelor Dr. Angela Merkel, in which they addressed the alarming immune system weakening effect of 5G technology, causing increased susceptibility to the Covid-19 disease. The letter is entitled: “WE DOCTORS AND PSYCHOTHERAPISTS ORIENTED TOWARDS ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE SEE A CONNECTION BETWEEN RADIO INTERFERENCE, IMMUNODEFICIENCY AND THE GLOBAL EPIDEMIC. WE CALL FOR DRASTICALLY REDUCING THE BURDEN OF HIGH-FREQUENCY EXPOSURE THAT IS SPREADING WORLDWIDE.”

This letter, documented with extensive scientific references, leaves little doubt about the seriousness of the correlation between the EMF related to 3G, 4G, and 5G technology and Covid-19. They argue that the increase in EMF exposure, such as due to 5G technology, severely weakens the immune system, even much more so than the predecessor methods (4G and 3G). Note that 5G is about 25 times more powerful than 4G, which was implemented in the early 2010s and which is about 100 times more intensive than 3G (started in 2001) which, in turn, is several times faster than 2G, which was first marketed in 1991. The amount of EMF believed to be harmless to humans has, thus dramatically increased during the last two decades.

Map 3: Cumulative Covid-19 incidences per capita as of 12/15/2021; deeper red means more cases per capita (source New York Times.

Is there an upper limit of EMF amplitude and dosage, beyond which even an otherwise healthy human experiences detrimental health implications? Is 5G pushing on these limits? Could it be that the Covid-19 pandemic is a response to the unprecedented “pandemic” of environmental, EMF-related weakening of the immune system? Could it be that the severity of the Covid-19 outbreak in different regions and countries is in direct proportion to the intensity and duration (dosage) of EMF which the residents have been exposed to? Could this be the explanation why the two key Covid-19 disease indicators, the number of cases per 100,000 residents, and the percentage of casualties per identified Covid-19 case, differ widely from state to state, and country to country, and are surprisingly low in states and countries which are known to have been exceedingly cautious with regard to the safety of 5G technology? We know, for example, that Australia, New Zealand, and Norway approached 5G implementation with extraordinary precautions, and they have a low Covid incidence rate. What about economically depressed third-world countries (e.g., most of the African continent), where wide-spread implementation of 4G or even 5G wireless technology has been too expensive?

It is understood that a meaningful correlation between 5G technology and Covid-19 susceptibility is extremely difficult. It should not only include the straight-forward considerations when and where the technology was implemented, but more importantly under what ancillary conditions. What sub-type of the technology was used? Where were the transponders placed? What are the local rules regarding proximity to population centers, shielding, etc.? What type of receivers (e.g., smartphone types and manufacturers) are being used? What are the habits of users? How much air time do they use, etc. etc.?

And then, of course, we need to include vaccination and vaccination hesitation patterns. and political influences. While this does make things complicated when it comes to the United States and central European countries, some trends are quite apparent. The western coastal regions (Washington, Oregon, and Northern California, as well as the New England states, stand out as low-Covid incidence regions, and these states have particularly environmental conscious governments, where Covid contagion precautions, as well as environmental contamination in general have been taken particularly seriously. Clearly, more factors than just special care with 5G wireless EMF contamination contributed to the obvious lower Covid incidence rates in these regions.

There is also the economic factor, which conceivably influences Covid contagion susceptibility. In Africa, Central America, and many Asian counties low standard of living coincides with low 5G implementation. However, why poverty would increase, rather than decrease, a person’s natural defense mechanism against Covid is not particularly obvious, but a correlation between third-world living conditions and protection against Covid cannot be ruled out. It is, for example, feasible that the consummation of processed foods, as is prevalent in most western civilizations, contributes to weakening the natural immune system. Lower life expectancy may have an inverse effect — i.e., countries with low life expectancy (such as most of the countries in Africa) might also explain a statistically lower overall rate of Covid disease.

Anyway, if a correlation between Covid and EMF radiation exposure holds, what are we to learn? Good-bye to 5G, perhaps even 4G? No more WiFi? No more routers — connect your laptop via an Ethernet cable? Hold your cell phones as far away from your head as possible? No more microwave cooking? Stay away from cell towers and/or high-voltage transmission lines? Get an EMF meter (available for less than $100) and measure hot spots in your house, and keep your beds in a particularly low-EMF part of your house? All these are “OMA” recommendations, dating back to their 2012 book: “Elements of Health,” and referring to 4G, not even to the much stronger 5G technology. Some of these precautions may be more important than we think …

We need to add a disclaimer at this point: there appear to be exceptions to this crude correlation. South Korea and Japan, for example, show a purple dot for commercial 5G use but have very low Covid-19 statistics. China is also an exception, but the political situation in that country may distort their statistics. A rigorous study of the correlation of Covid-19 statistics with identified regions in the world where 5G has been implemented for various known periods of time would certainly be an important subject for serious academic research projects. Additionally, there are certainly more factors than EMF that have contributed to the weakening of our immune system to the point that it is no longer capable of repelling the aggression of the coronavirus, such as excessive use of antibiotics, side effects of medications and medical treatments, nutritional imbalances, smoking habits, and alike. It is also conceivable that air pollutants can act as nucleation agents for accumulation of coronavirus microbes, which would then indicate the observed heavier Covid-19 disease experiences in urban areas known for excessive air pollution.

Nonetheless: The plot thickens. The coronavirus is teaching us that we have gone too far with our technological advances. They have compromised our health. We must correct the direction in which we have been going. A paradigm shift in thinking and behavior must occur: technology must be set secondary to health.

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