Summary
Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Massachusetts is investigating after five nurses from its fifth-floor maternity unit were diagnosed with benign brain tumors. The tumors, all benign, are three different types, the hospital said. A total of 11 staff reported health concerns.
The hospital, in collaboration with government agencies, found no environmental risk after testing possible sources like water, masks, and nearby medical treatments.
The Massachusetts Nurses Association disputes the hospital’s findings, citing limited nurse interviews and incomplete testing. The union is conducting an independent investigation.
Federal agencies have not commented. The American Cancer Society notes that such clusters require specific criteria to indicate a common cause.
I’m not a 5G nut and I trust modern technology for the most part.
But have they investigated how wireless signals might play a role in all this?
Sure wireless signals in most places is not dangerous but in a hospital setting with lots of different instruments everywhere using all kinds of equipment for all kinds of purposes some being run with wireless signals of all kinds, next to nearby systems running xray machines, MRI, CT Scan machines all concentrated in one general location … all that radiation and energy probably adds up. Not to mention all the medical chemicals and materials that are in a hospital.
It’s a hospital. They have sources of ionizing radiation in many locations for medical purposes.
https://www.cdc.gov/radiation-health/about/non-ionizing-radiation.html
Literal chemists, who actively use a wider variety of chemicals than you could possibly imagine and in close contact and use a massive variety of high field instruments, do not contract any sort of cancers whatsoever in higher rates than non chemists
Radiology people have to wear dosimeters. If they’re not getting flagged as exposed it’d be wild for anyone else in the hospital to have the effects.
Could be that the room that houses the X-ray machine is right next to the break room and insufficiently shielded or something like that.
Y’all really underestimate 1) the rules, regulations, and testing of modern radiation equipment and facilities. 2) how hospitals are built/organized especially for maternity wards which are relatively isolated from the rest of the hospital.
E: I would also note radiology/imaging is also separated from a lot of the hospital because of equipment like MRIs needing to be kept away from general equipment. A maternity ward and radiology sharing a break room or even being adjacent would be more than a little odd.