Abstract
The paper considers a hypothesis concerned the possible influence of electromagnetic pollution of the environment on the lethality rate of the population from coronavirus infection, along with other factors. The hypothesis is indirectly confirmed by the correlation between the degree of rigidity of hygienic regulations of radio frequency electromagnetic background levels for the population, which are mainly created by mobile (cellular) communication systems, and the lethality rate from COVID-19 in various countries. A special measures to ensure the safety of rapid development of technologies, systems and services for mobile communications of the fourth (4G), fifth (5G), and, by 2030, the sixth (6G) generation, associated with an increase by several orders of magnitude in the number of radiating devices, the data transmission rates over radio frequency channels and the area capacity of mobile traffic, are discussed. For quantitative analysis of these processes, a practical method of worst-case estimation of electromagnetic background level generated by these systems has been developed, verified using the results of numerous measurements of the electromagnetic background in various countries, and described in this paper. This technique is based on the use of the integrated system characteristics of wireless information services and makes it possible to justify the necessary system, technical and managerial solutions aimed at ensuring the necessary level of electromagnetic ecology of populous areas and electromagnetic safety of people in conditions of rapid advancement of 4G/5G/6G systems without affecting the quality of informational support of the population and information technologies in economy, education, healthcare and other sectors.
Highlights
0.60 coefficient: 1) Country population is given according to https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ 2) The lower limit of the range of normalized values
The validity of the hypothesis about the possible impact of the EM background created by the public wireless information systems, first of all by systems of cellular communications, on the relative lethality rate from COVID-19 is indirectly confirmed by the results of the analysis of correlation between the degree of severity of hygienic regulation of levels of radio frequency EM background for the population in different countries according to data [12] and the lethality rate from COVID-19 in relation to the number of people infected according to [38,39,40]
Taking into account the extremely high cost of error in this conclusion, this hypothesis certainly requires further verification, both in terms of analyzing the reliability of data [38–40, etc.], which are the basis of the correlation analysis, and in analyzing the actual levels of EM background in places with different levels of the lethality rate from COVID-19, and in terms of accounting for the impact on the lethality rate from COVID-19 of other factors
Summary
0.551 coefficient: 1) The lower limit of the range of normalized values. Результаты анализа корреляции между степенью жесткости гигиенического нормирования уровней радиочастотного электромагнитного фона для населения в различных странах, по данным [12], и относительным уровнем смертности от COVID-19, определяемым как отношение числа умерших, по данным [38,39,40], к общей численности населения в миллионах чел. Результаты анализа корреляции между степенью жесткости гигиенического нормирования уровней радиочастотного электромагнитного фона для населения в различных странах, по данным [12], и относительным уровнем смертности от COVID-19, определяемым как отношение числа умерших, по данным [38,39,40], к общей численности населения в миллионах чел. 1)
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