Full, accurate and complete disclosure of SARS-COV-2 virus records
Dear House of Commons,
Please provide a full, accurate and complete list of records held within your office, and or under your authority, describing the isolation of a SARS-COV-2 virus, directly taken from a symptomatic patient of COVID-19 where the sample was not first combined with any other source of genetic material (not limited but by way of example monkey kidney cells, aka vero cells, liver cancer cells) thereby eliminating contamination as a possible alternative source of sampling.
Please note isolation is used in the normally understood meaning of the word – the act of separating a thing from another. I am not referring, and hence not requesting, to isolation meaning the culture of something else, the performance of an amplification test (eg PCR test which only detect mRNA or DNA) or the sequencing of “something”.
If any records match the above description and are available to the public elsewhere, please provide enough information so that I may identify and access each record with certainty (i.e. title, author(s), date, journal, and weblink or location where the public may access it).
I remind you full, accurate and complete disclosure is required.
Yours faithfully,
Marc Horn
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From: Marc Horn <[FOI #679707 email]>
Sent: 25 July 2020 14:39
To: FOI Commons <[email address]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Full, accurate and complete
disclosure of SARS-COV-2 virus records
Dear House of Commons,
Please provide a full, accurate and complete list of records held within
your office, and or under your authority, describing the isolation of a
SARS-COV-2 virus, directly taken from a symptomatic patient of COVID-19
where the sample was not first combined with any other source of genetic
material (not limited but by way of example monkey kidney cells, aka vero
cells, liver cancer cells) thereby eliminating contamination as a possible
alternative source of sampling.
Please note isolation is used in the normally understood meaning of the
word – the act of separating a thing from another. I am not referring, and
hence not requesting, to isolation meaning the culture of something else,
the performance of an amplification test (eg PCR test which only detect
mRNA or DNA) or the sequencing of “something”.
If any records match the above description and are available to the public
elsewhere, please provide enough information so that I may identify and
access each record with certainty (i.e. title, author(s), date, journal,
and weblink or location where the public may access it).
I remind you full, accurate and complete disclosure is required.
Yours faithfully,
Marc Horn
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Dear Mr Horn,
Freedom of Information Request F20-347
Thank you for your request for information as copied below. You have asked
for information describing the isolation of a SARS-COV-2 virus.
This information is not held by the House of Commons.
It may help you to understand that the House of Commons is an organisation
that forms part of the UK’s legislature. Our role it is to make and debate
laws, scrutinise the work of the Government and debate the issues of the
day. Whilst this may involve carrying out research into those issues, it
does not extend to practical scientific investigation. You are seeking
information which might instead be held by the Department of Health and
Social Care or Public Health England, and therefore you may wish to
consider submitting your request under the Freedom of Information Act to
them. Contact details can be found at
[1]https://www.gov.uk/government/organisati...
and [2]https://www.gov.uk/government/organisati....
However, it may interest you to know that the House of Commons Library and
the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology have undertaken
research on the Covid-19 outbreak, for the purpose of informing Members of
Parliament. This has information on the subject in general which you may
find helpful and is publicly available at
[3]https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/cor... and
[4]https://post.parliament.uk/category/anal....
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Yours sincerely,
IRIS Officer
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House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
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From: Marc Horn <[FOI #679707 email]>
Sent: 25 July 2020 14:39
To: FOI Commons <[email address]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Full, accurate and complete
disclosure of SARS-COV-2 virus records
Dear House of Commons,
Please provide a full, accurate and complete list of records held within
your office, and or under your authority, describing the isolation of a
SARS-COV-2 virus, directly taken from a symptomatic patient of COVID-19
where the sample was not first combined with any other source of genetic
material (not limited but by way of example monkey kidney cells, aka vero
cells, liver cancer cells) thereby eliminating contamination as a possible
alternative source of sampling.
Please note isolation is used in the normally understood meaning of the
word – the act of separating a thing from another. I am not referring, and
hence not requesting, to isolation meaning the culture of something else,
the performance of an amplification test (eg PCR test which only detect
mRNA or DNA) or the sequencing of “something”.
If any records match the above description and are available to the public
elsewhere, please provide enough information so that I may identify and
access each record with certainty (i.e. title, author(s), date, journal,
and weblink or location where the public may access it).
I remind you full, accurate and complete disclosure is required.
Yours faithfully,
Marc Horn
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