US officials scheduled a nationwide alert for mobile phones and other devices in October to test an emergency warning system, but social media posts claim the signals will have harmful health effects, with some drawing on conspiracy theories about substances in Covid-19 vaccines. The assertions are false; these broadcasts are the same used for decades and are harmless, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and independent experts.
"Receiving the message is not different in terms of energy or radio waves than any other message."
He said:"Even if the government weirdly wanted cellphones to blast EM radiation at maximum output, and the carriers and phone manufacturers weirdly went along with it, they still wouldn't do anything that is remotely detectable by the human body.", who specializes in communications technologies, said that while there is debate in the scientific community about the degree of radiation from cellular networks, the emergency alerts will have no impact on this.
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