JAVA WITH JOHN, GEORGE AND JOE : WHITE PLAINS WEEK THE JANUARY 29 REPORT INSTANTLY ON www.communitymedia.org and YOUTUBE–CLICK THE WHITE ARROW!

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GEORGE LATIMER, DR. JOSEPH RICCA. JOHN BAILEY’S REPORT ON GETTING VACCINATED AT THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY CENTER. THE CREEPING SPREAD OF COVID-19 IN WESTCHESTER, THE 10 TOWNS AND CITIES WITH THE MOST POSITIVES GROWTH RATE
JOHN BAILEY
THE CITIZENETREPORTER
WITH GEORGE LATIMER COUNTY EXECUTIVE
ON

THE SPORTS COMEBACK IN SCHOOLS

JOHN BAILEY’S
VACCINE EXPERIENCE AT WESTCHESTER COUNTY CENTER HE TAKES YOU THROUGH IT WHAT HAPPENS

SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS DR. JOSEPH RICCA ON OPENING WHITE PLAINS SCHOOLS TO ALL STUDENTS 5 DAYS A WEEK IN SPRING–WHAT HAS TO HAPPEN.

THE MITCHELL TWO MONTHS AWAY FROM TOPPING OFF

GRID LOOKING FOR A PARTNER TO TURN BOULEVARD ON EAST POST ROAD INTO MORE HOUSING AS RETAIL DOES NOT COME THROUGH

THE NEW 10 WORST PERFORMING TOWNS AND MUNCIPALITIES INFECTED WITH CORONAVIRUS THE LAST TWO WEEKS

THE COVID POSITIVES COUNTYWIDE THE LAST 7 DAYS

HENRY AARON

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WHITE PLAINS SALES TAX $$ DOWN 20% FIRST HALF. 6 MONTHS OF DECLINES. $9 MILLION DEFICIT IF SECOND HALF PERFORMS ON THE MONEY. COUNTY UP 9.8%, BUT OVERESTIMATED SALES TAX REVENUES BY $67 MILLION.

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WPCNR QUILL AND EYESHADE. By John F. Bailey. Based on data from the New York State Department of Taxation and finance. January 29, 2021:

White Plains did not have a great December in retail sales.

The city ended the first six months of 20-21 Fiscal year down $5,063,506 down to $21,718,689, compared to $26,950,563 in July-December of 2010

It was the sixth consecutive month of declining sales tax revenues for White Plains.

If the city earns the $25,317,531 they did last year from January to June, they will earn $47,036,220 for the year, down $4 Million from the 219-20 total.$51 Million.This will mean they will not be able to fund the anticipated $5,000,000 the city devotes to the Taxpayers Stabilization Fund each year, which ostensibly pays anticipated pay increases. To meet the anticipated need to shift the required funds into the Tax Payers Stabilization Fund ($5,000).

Since they need $4 Million  even if Jan-June numbers equal last January to June, the city would either have to do a combination of property tax increase and expenditure cutting effective now.

He city is hamstrung by its own charter which forbids the city from budgeting any amount of sales tax revenues that are more than the city made in the previous year.

It the sales tax revenues continue to decline at the 20% trend, the deficit will continue to climb.

If softness continues at the 20% declining pattern, the city will be down $5,237,874 from the $25,317,531 Million made in sales taxes from January to June 2020 last fiscal year.

If the handle the next six months (including January just about over) is 15% down the deficit is $3.8 million ,  If 10%, $2.5 Millon, 5%, $1,265,867 Million.  

The City has until April to craft the new 21-22 Budget.  If the January figure doesn’t robustly bounce to  $4,549,018 figure of January 2020, that will be very bad news.

If the revenue drain continues in February and March, that means the city has to consider cuts in something, capital expenditures particularly would be a good start.

Possible Solution: Change the City Charter Prohibition on Forecasting More Than You Made the Previous Year.

The city could bet on a turnaround midyear and not incur having to make cuts.

If the Common Council changed the charter rule allowing them to raise the $46 Million they budgeted for 2019-20 and will be down slightly from, by say the percentage of their budget deficit which now looks to be around a maximum of $5 Million.

They could change the charter to say the Council in anticipation could raise the projection of sales tax beyond the amount raised the previous year, say by no more than 5% or liberally, 10%.

Make the change in the charter time-limited to 3 years. This would allow the city to avoid the draconian political third rail of raising taxes and cutting jobs and services.

Such an Emergency Financial Initiative would help to craft the 21-22 budget with a safety value if spring revenue continue soft.

If the city is down $9 million in revenue from sales taxes by budget time, the city, to meet the next year budget would have to choose between a 27% property tax increase flat out, or cutting expenses $4-1/2 Million and raising property taxes 12% or so.

If the next 6 months come back even or even close to even, the city could avoid cutting expenses, services and raising property taxes to draconian, vote burning levels.

Raising the charter restriction to allow a projection within a 5 % or 10% increase is not too draconian. (Not 27%).  That would expect $4.6 Million approximately what the deficit shaping up now is looking like, if January to June revenues sustain themselves at last spring levels.

A TIME LIMIT would have be placed this “Emergency Financial Inititive” (EFI) to avoid abusing expectations.

A 5% increase in the charter amount from the previous year this year would be $2.3 MILLION. Ability to raise it 10% would raise the $46 Million  4.6 Million, exactly the amount the city has to replace the way things are doing.

Westchester County finished with $680.7 Million in Sales Tax Receipts reflecting their 1% sales tax increase.

The final figure is 9.8% higher than 2019 when the county earned $619.8.

The county blamed the covid crisis for not reaching their prediction of $748 Million in sale tax receipts. The county was chagrined to realize that an approximate $67 million sales tax shortfall from their original projection of a 27% overly optimistic expectation of increase in sales tax revenues, and blamed it on Covid-19.

Westchester County is not restricted to keeping sales revenues projections no more than the previous year, is insightful as to what happens when hope and optimism are blind to reason.

The Covid epidemic actually helped in erasing the deficit the county blamed it for, by enabling the county to replace the sales tax gap by shifting covid funds not used by the end of the year into the county reserve fund.

They moved $40 million of the reserve funds into the general budget, and supplemented it with retirements and other savings to close the 2020 budget balanced.

GEORGE LATIMER COUNTY EXECUTIVE TONIGHT AT 7 PM ON WPTV “PEOPLE TO BE HEARD” CH 45 FIOS, CH 76 IN WP OR www.wpcommunity.org anytime.

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JOHN BAILEY
THE CITIZENETREPORTER
INTERVIEW
COUNTY EXECUTIVE
GEORGE LATIMER
ON THE STATE OF THE COUNTY
GEORGE LATIMER TONIGHT
STARTING HIS FOURTH YEAR AS COUNTY EXECUTIVE
ON

HOW WESTCHESTER COMES BACK BIG TIME

UNEMPLOYMENT–DAYCARE INITIATIVES

AID TO SMALL BUSINESSES HOW IT’S WORKING OUT

WESTCHESTER IS MORE ATTRACTIVE TO BUSINESSES MOVING UP

REACHING PEOPLE OF COLOR TO TAKE THE COVID VACCINE

PLAYLAND-STANDARD AMUSEMENTS THE BIG BUILD

MAKING THE WESTCHESTER AIRPORT MASTER PLAN A COMMUNITY PLAN

THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING GAP

COVID INFECTIONS ONGOING THREAT

OPENING UP SCHOOL SPORTS AND PREVENTING A COVID SPREAD

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Infections coming down in NY State. ORANGE ZONES LIFTED WITH SOME EXCEPTIONS. BUT UK CONTAGIOUS COVID “VARIANT” IS IN WESTCHESTER.

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WPCNR GOVERNOR ANDREW M. CUOMO NIGHTLY COVID REPORT. January 27, 2021:

We’re slowly coming down from our holiday surge and the number of new cases and hospitalizations have decreased across the state. In response, we’re making modifications to our micro-clusters.

All Orange Zone restrictions, and some Yellow Zone restrictions, have been lifted

Yellow Zone restrictions, which include mandatory weekly testing of a portion of students and faculty at schools, remain in place in those zones.

To be clear statewide limits remain the same—a 33 percent cap on gym occupancy, a limit on private gatherings of 10 people, a 50 percent cap of occupancy in retail establishments—and of course, masks are still required in public when social distancing is impossible to maintain.

The improvement in the numbers is a testament to New Yorkers’ hard work and diligence against the virus and we must keep it up.  Vaccine FAQ of the Day Here’s what else you need to know tonight: 

1. Hospitalizations fell to 8,771. Of the 202,661 tests reported yesterday, 11,028, or 5.44 percent were positive. There were 1,558 patients in ICU yesterday, up 14 from the previous day. Of them, 1,027 are intubated. Sadly, we lost 170 New Yorkers to the virus. 

 2. As of 11am Wednesday, 96 percent of first doses allocated to the state have been administered. This represents 1,246,946 first doses administered of the 1,304,050 allocations received from the federal government. Second dose allocations are separately allocated so no one should worry about not being able to get a second dose if they have already received the first. 

3. Additional cases of the UK variant have been identified in New York State. The new cases have been found in Long Island, New York City, Westchester, Saratoga, Tompkins, Niagara, Onondaga, Essex and Warren Counties, bringing the statewide total to 42 known cases.  

4. The State extended a partnership with HelloFresh to deliver free meal kits to veterans and military families in New York. Since establishing this partnership in July 2020, HelloFresh has provided more than 200,000 nutritious meals to veterans and military families in New York City who are facing food insecurity due to COVID-19.

Now, New York and HelloFresh are extending this collaboration through the second quarter of 2021, ensuring that veterans and military families in New York City will continue to receive these nourishing meals throughout the challenging months ahead. We thank HelloFresh for their partnership.  

5. All residents of nursing homes participating in the federal Long Term Care Facility vaccination program have been offered the vaccine. To date, 72 percent of nursing home residents have been vaccinated. By February 7th, all staff at nursing homes will have been offered the vaccine. Nursing home residents who declined the vaccine on the first opportunity—perhaps wanting to wait until others had received the vaccine—will get additional chances to get the vaccine. 

Tonight’s “Deep Breath Moment”: Central Park received an unexpected visitor today—a snowy owl. Spotting this species of owl is an extremely rare event. Snowy owls are common in the Arctic tundra, but not in New York City, and so bird-watchers marveled at the unusual sighting. Snowy owls migrate south in winter. Avid birder David Barrett speculated that this particular snowy owl mistook the park’s baseball field for a sand beach. 

Ever Upward, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo 

ted statewide—including all cluster zones in Western New York.

The Yellow Zones that remain are in Newburgh and in New York City (two in the Bronx, one in Queens, and one in Washington Heights).

The improvement in the numbers is a testament to New Yorkers’ hard work and diligence against the virus and we must keep it up.  

Vaccine FAQ of the Day Here’s what else you need to know tonight: 1. Hospitalizations fell to 8,771. Of the 202,661 tests reported yesterday, 11,028, or 5.44 percent were positive. There were 1,558 patients in ICU yesterday, up 14 from the previous day. Of them, 1,027 are intubated. Sadly, we lost 170 New Yorkers to the virus.  2. As of 11am today, 96 percent of first doses allocated to the state have been administered. This represents 1,246,946 first doses administered of the 1,304,050 allocations received from the federal government. Second dose allocations are separately allocated so no one should worry about not being able to get a second dose if they have already received the first. 3. Additional cases of the UK variant have been identified in New York State. The new cases have been found in Long Island, New York City, Westchester, Saratoga, Tompkins, Niagara, Onondaga, Essex and Warren Counties, bringing the statewide total to 42 known cases.  4. The State extended a partnership with HelloFresh to deliver free meal kits to veterans and military families in New York. Since establishing this partnership in July 2020, HelloFresh has provided more than 200,000 nutritious meals to veterans and military families in New York City who are facing food insecurity due to COVID-19. Now, New York and HelloFresh are extending this collaboration through the second quarter of 2021, ensuring that veterans and military families in New York City will continue to receive these nourishing meals throughout the challenging months ahead. We thank HelloFresh for their partnership.  5. All residents of nursing homes participating in the federal Long Term Care Facility vaccination program have been offered the vaccine. To date, 72 percent of nursing home residents have been vaccinated. By February 7th, all staff at nursing homes will have been offered the vaccine. Nursing home residents who declined the vaccine on the first opportunity—perhaps wanting to wait until others had received the vaccine—will get additional chances to get the vaccine. Tonight’s “Deep Breath Moment”: Central Park received an unexpected visitor today—a snowy owl. Spotting this species of owl is an extremely rare event. Snowy owls are common in the Arctic tundra, but not in New York City, and so bird-watchers marveled at the unusual sighting. Snowy owls migrate south in winter. Avid birder David Barrett speculated that this particular snowy owl mistook the park’s baseball field for a sand beach.  If you were forwarded this email, you can subscribe to New York State’s Coronavirus Updates here. Ever Upward, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo

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HUDSON VALLEY COUNTY EXECUTIVES SAY “PLAY BALL” in all High Risk Low Risk Sports

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WPCNR COUNTY CLARION-LEDGER. From the Westchester County Department of Communications. January 27, 2021

Westchester County Executive George Latimer united with the 6 other County Executives in the Hudson Valley to endorse opening all sports for play in schools effective February 1, saying a written statement:

“Since early March Westchester County has grappled with the realities of COVID-19.  While the bodily threats of the virus are clearly documented – the mental impacts of COVID-19 are also equally devastating.

Children in particular have suffered significant mental harms due to the isolation of not being in school consistently, not socializing with friends and family, and not partaking in extracurricular actives. 

We know there is not a quick fix, but we also know that science has shown us, time and time again, that certain activities can resume with proper precautions put in place. 

Today, I stand with my fellow Hudson Valley County Executives in support of sports resuming in schools.

To be clear, there will be protective protocols in place, and these additional precautions are to protect the athletes. But, I am in favor of providing our children with some normalcy so that they can begin to heal from this horrific pandemic. The resumption of sports will be important for the continued development and mental well-being of our young people – we must never forget them in the decisions we make.”

County Executives from the seven counties of the Hudson Valley have issued the following joint statement:

The Hudson Valley region has reviewed the updated “Interim Guidance for Sports and Recreation during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency,” dated January 22, 2021 published by New York State. Following discussion with the New York State Association of County Health Officials, regional County Executives, and area public health officials, the Hudson Valley region will authorize “Higher-Risk” sports — both scholastic and non-scholastic — to proceed, effective February 1st, 2021, at the sole discretion of the governing school district or non-scholastic athletic organization.

These activities include, but are not limited to, football, wrestling, ice hockey, rugby, basketball, contact lacrosse, volleyball, martial arts, and competitive cheer/dance. In accordance with the state guidance, county health departments in the region will also monitor whether there has been a more-transmissible variant of COVID-19 identified in the area, as well as the percent of local residents that test positive. 

Our region agrees that sports provide many positive impacts for a student’s social, physical, and emotional wellbeing and should be authorized whenever possible.

However, COVID-19 transmission rates around the state and throughout the Hudson Valley region demonstrate the critical nature of proper safety precautions to limit the continued spread of the virus in our communities. The following must be taken into consideration as school districts and athletic organizations in the Hudson Valley region make their individual determinations on how to proceed: 

·         School districts and non-scholastic organizations that will be organizing sporting activities are responsible for oversight and compliance with all published state guidance, including relevant safety protocols. 

All requirements outlined in the January 22, 2021 update to the Interim Guidance for Sports and Recreation must be followed by sports teams, recreation activities, and facilities where games and practices are held. League staff, school athletic directors, sports facility directors, coaches, and parents are strongly encouraged to review this guidance and take steps to make sure current team and league operations align with this updated guidance. 

·         Parents, coaches, and athletes should be fully informed and affirmatively consent to the participate in these activities understanding the risk of disease transmission. 

·         Surveillance testing programs may be considered, but are not required as a means to minimize the spread of disease within these activities. 

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Reluctance of People of Color to get Vaccinated, a problem. Westchester Third in covid Infections in New York State. Infection rate of Persons of Color in December: 29% at Open Door Centers Around County

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 WPCNR VACCINATION VIEW. From Open Door January 27, 2021:

According to a December survey by the Pew Research Center, nearly 40 percent of Americans say they will definitely not or probably not get the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available to them.

This is a significant finding, yet it is the overwhelming number of people of color living in underserved communities that most concerns health care providers like Open Door Family Medical Center.

“Communities of color have been hit hardest by the pandemic and are the same communities where vaccine hesitancy is most prevalent,” said Dr. Daren Wu, chief medical officer at Open Door, a Federally Qualified Health Center with sites throughout the Lower Hudson Valley Region. “We tell our patients that the COVID-19 vaccines are safe – and critical for building the herd immunity necessary to end the pandemic.”

According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Director of the Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the nation’s leading infectious disease specialist, as many as 80 percent of Americans need to be vaccinated so the virus can’t find enough new hosts.

Mistrust in Communities of Color

According to research conducted this fall by Langer Research Associates, Unidos U.S., the NAACP and the COVID Collaborative, only 14 percent of Black respondents and 34 percent of Latino participants believe in the safety of a COVID-19 vaccine.

A more recent poll released by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that Black Americans continue to remain skeptical about the vaccine with only 35 percent saying they definitely or probably would not get vaccinated, citing concerns about side effects and the newness of the vaccine.

“These findings are not surprising, said Dr. Wu. “They are due to a history of racial bias, mistrust of the American health care system, and access inequities. This skepticism certainly seems justified given the exploitation of communities of color by the medical establishment over the years.”

History plays a role in this. Examples include such incidents as the Tuskegee experiment, where black men with syphilis were invited to gain free medical care, but were not treated so medical professionals could study them; and the sterilization of women in Puerto Rico, where as many as one-third of the female population was sterilized by the government with the goal to reduce poverty and unemployment.

In hopes of alleviating this gap, President Joe Biden has made vaccine access for communities of color a key feature of his $1.9 trillion plan to confront the pandemic. The plan calls for creating more vaccination sites, such as mobile clinics, to get vaccine to hard-to-reach, marginalized communities in underserved areas.

Even prior to the pandemic, Open Door has worked closely with local clergy, elected officials and business leaders to improve public health outcomes with safety as a priority.

“We want the community to feel secure knowing that producers of these vaccines have strictly adhered to the necessary research, protocols and testing,” said Dr. Wu. “The vaccines have been brought to market in record time because of massive funding and collaboration across the globe between private and government funders. They have not been rushed to the detriment of their safety or efficacy.”

Decades of work, first years ago on the corresponding HIV spike protein and more recently on its counterparts from other viruses, including SARS, MERS, and seasonal coronaviruses, showed how best to design and produce the SARS-CoV-2 (i.e. Covid-19 version).

Sophisticated methods to image the spike proteins via recent advances in electron microscopy allowed researchers and vaccine makers rapidly to study what they were making and gain assurances they were on the right track.

Dr. Wu stressed the importance of overcoming vaccine hesitancy at a time when a record number of Americans are being hospitalized and dying daily (an average of over 4,000). Westchester County has been hit hard, reporting the third highest rate of coronavirus infections in New York State.

Open Door has seen the surge in infections among its own patients. The positivity rate jumped to 29% in the final weeks of December, and Open Door is currently providing more than 1,000 tests per week.

“The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have gone through all phases of clinical trials,” said Dr. Wu. “This means that they first had to be given to tens of thousands of volunteers during these trials to make sure they were safe. Since receiving the FDA’s EUA (emergency use authorization) a little over a month ago, they have already been given to more than ten million Americans, with excellent safety reported to date.”

Bottom line, he added, “The vaccines are super safe, super effective and the best way to protect yourself and your loved ones.”

Open Door Family Medical Center’s mission has remained consistent since 1972: to provide high-quality health care that’s affordable, accessible and efficient.

Today, Open Door cares for more than 1,000 adults and children every day in Westchester, Putnam and Ulster counties – with more than 300,000 patient visits and over 400 babies delivered annually – regardless of one’s ability to pay. In addition to medical, dental, pediatric, women’s, podiatry and behavioral health care offered in its Ossining, Port Chester, Sleepy Hollow, Mount Kisco, Brewster, Mamaroneck sites; seven School-Based Health Centers in the Ossining and Port Chester school districts; a mobile dental; and dental practice in Saugerties, Open Door promotes wellness, good nutrition, stress reduction and physical activity to help families stay healthy. Open Door was recognized as the number one New York State Health Disparity Reducer and a leading Access Enhancer by the Health Resources Service Administration (HRSA).

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More Vaccines for the USA

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 WPCNR GOVERNOR CUOMO EVENING CORONAVIRUS REPORT. January 26, 2021:

To ultimately be successful in winning this war against COVID we need greater supply of the vaccine and we need all New Yorkers to continue practicing COVID safe behavior. Earlier this evening,

President Biden announced allocations to states will go up 16 percent and that we can count on that allocation for the next three weeks.

So far, we’ve been going week to week and now with advance notice we can plan better and that is good news. New York stands ready to administer more vaccinations the moment we receive more supply. However, even with this increased allocation, supply is likely to continue to be extremely limited in the near term.  

Photo of the Day: Vaccinations at the new site at Memorial Presbyterian Church in Roosevelt, NY are underway (Photo by Kevin Coughlin) Here’s what else you need to know tonight: 

1. Total hospitalizations rose to 8,831. Of the 162,938 tests reported yesterday, 11,064, or 6.79 percent were positive. There were 1,544 patients in ICU yesterday, up 22 from the previous day. Of them, 1,006 are intubated. Sadly, we lost 162 New Yorkers to the virus. 

 2. The Biden administration also announced that it would “soon be able to confirm” the purchase of an additional 200 million doses of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. These additional doses, if secured by the federal government, would not arrive until the summer and will not solve the immediate supply crunch. We are in communication with the Biden team about this and other supply issues. 

 3. As of 11:00am today, New York’s health care distribution sites have administered 93 percent of first dose vaccinations. We administered 1,210,339 first doses out of a total allocation of 1,304,050 first doses (this data excludes the federally run Long Term Care Facility program). These sites have administered 74 percent of first and second doses. New Yorkers can track the State’s vaccination progress through the NYS Vaccine Dashboard.  

4. The application deadline for COVID Rent Relief is February 1, 2021. Last month, I signed an Executive Order expanding eligibility for New York State’s COVID Rent Relief Program so more rent relief can be provided to New Yorkers. Learn more about the program. 

 5. Remember, mental health resources are available for New Yorkers who need them. As we continue through the winter we can’t underestimate the mental and emotional strain of the pandemic. New Yorkers can visit headspace.com/ny for free mindfulness resources or call our support hotline at 1-844-863-93

14.  Tonight’s “Deep Breath Moment”: Inspired by a woman in Michigan, Mary Kate Tischler and her 6-year-old daughter of Seaford, NY, set up a “Sharing Table” to help give back to their community. The two collected non-perishable goods from their home and set up a table outside their home with a sign to share that anyone passing by could take what they needed—or drop off their own pantry items. This community-minded spirit is what New York is all about.  If you were forwarded this email, you can subscribe to New York State’s Coronavirus Updates here. 

Ever Upward, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo

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PRESS CONFERENCE ON SUIT AGAINST THE FCC FOR IGNORING DOCUMENTED HEALTH DEFECTS ON CHILDREN OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS WIRELESS EMISSIONS

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WPCNR WHITE PLAINS LAW JOURNAL. Special to WPCNR from Children’s Health Defense WASHINGTON, DC—JAN. 26, 2021—

Today at 5 p.m. EST, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) will hold a press conference regarding the oral arguments yesterday in its landmark case against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. 

During yesterday’s hearing, the honorable Judge Henderson, a chemical engineer by training, told the FCC, “I am inclined to rule against you.”

The honorable Judge Patricia Millet consistently pushed the FCC to answer why the FCC and/or the U.S. Food and Drug Administration didn’t review the evidence on non-cancer effects of wireless technology; why they addressed only cell phones when there is evidence on effects from various other devices and infrastructure; and why they didn’t address the cumulative effects from the chronic exposure for numerous devices.

“This is a landmark case and it is of the utmost importance to Children’s Health Defense, which works relentlessly to eliminate the epidemic of sickness in children,” said the CHD’s Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 

“The overwhelming experimental and human evidence which the FCC has ignored leaves no doubt that wireless technology is a major contributory factor to this epidemic. The FCC has shown that its chief interest is protecting the telecom industry and maximizing its profits. Its position, as put forward in its brief, and as we saw today in court, is simply indefensible.”

CHD’s case challenges the FCC’s refusal to review its 25-year-old obsolete wireless “health guidelines” and to adopt scientific, biologically based radio frequency emissions rules that adequately protect public health from wireless devices and infrastructure, including 5G. The petitioners filed 11,000 pages of evidence. 

Children’s Health Defense and the Environmental Health Trust (EHT) filed separate cases against the FCC, but filed joint briefs. While EHT has been represented by attorney Ed Meyers, because of a court decision that only one attorney would be allowed to present in the Oral Arguments, Scott McCollough, CHD’s attorney, argued for both CHD and EHT Petitioners. 

Today’s press conference speakers include: Robert F Kennedy, Jr., CHD’s chairman and co-counsel in the case; Scott W. McCollough, CHD’s attorney; Dafna Tachover, attorney and CHD’s director of the 5G and Wireless Harm Project who spearheaded the lawsuit.

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