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Carr Says 5G Not Causing Coronavirus

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr Monday slammed a since-deleted tweet claiming 5G deployment was causing the coronavirus. The tweet by Keri Hilson, a “designer of audible art,” claimed the virus started in China shortly after 5G launched there last year. “This…

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tweet by someone with 4 [million] followers is straight from the most dangerous depths of tin foil hat land,” Carr said: “COVID-19 is a virus spread by person-to-person contact, not radio waves.”