Full, accurate and complete disclosure of SARS-COV-2 virus isolation records
Dear Health Research Authority,
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 Health Research Authority,
You are in breach of your legal duties and obligations of providing the required information by the 21 August 2020 to allow full accountability of your actions to the public.
Please immediately correct your breach within the next 3 working days.
Yours faithfully,
Marc Horn
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Dear Marc,
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request
Thank you for your email received on 24 August 2020 requesting the
following information:
o A full, accurate and complete list of records held by the HRA, or
under our 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.
Your request is being handled under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act
and has been referred to the appropriate personnel for investigation. We
will provide you with a response as soon as possible, but no later than 22
September 2020.
Kind regards,
Susannah
Freedom of Information
Health Research Authority
HRA | Skipton House, 80 London Road | London | SE1 6LH
T. 0207 972 2487
E. [1][email address]
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Dear Marc,
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request
We are writing in response to your request for information, under the FOI
Act, received on 24 August 2020. Thank you for your enquiry. You
requested the following information:
o A full, accurate and complete list of records held by the HRA, or
under our 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.
Our response is as follows:
o The HRA is not involved in collecting the information that you have
requested and we therefore do not hold this information. The remit of
the HRA is to protect and promote the interests of patients and the
public in health and social care research. Please find attached a link
to our website which provides further information on what we do:
[1]https://www.hra.nhs.uk/about-us/.
We hope that this information is helpful to you, but should you require
further clarification, please let us know.
If you are unhappy about the way in which your request has been handled,
the HRA has an internal complaints procedure through which you can raise
any concerns. Further details of this procedure may be obtained by
contacting the Complaints Manager via [2][email address]. If you are
dissatisfied with the outcome of the complaints procedure, you can apply
to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), who will consider whether
we, as a public authority, have complied with its obligations under the
Act, and can require the HRA to remedy any problems. You can find out
more about how to do this, and about the Act in general, on their website
[3]www.ico.org.uk. Complaints should be sent to:
FOI Complaints Resolution – Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF
Kind regards,
Susannah
Freedom of Information
Health Research Authority
HRA | Skipton House, 80 London Road | London | SE1 6LH
T. 0207 972 2487
E. [4][email address]
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From: FOI <[8][email address]>
Sent: 26 August 2020 14:26
To: Marc Horn <[9][FOI #679709 email]>
Subject: Acknowledgment of FOI 2021/FOI/026
Dear Marc,
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request
Thank you for your email received on 24 August 2020 requesting the
following information:
o A full, accurate and complete list of records held by the HRA, or
under our 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.
Your request is being handled under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act
and has been referred to the appropriate personnel for investigation. We
will provide you with a response as soon as possible, but no later than 22
September 2020.
Kind regards,
Susannah
Freedom of Information
Health Research Authority
HRA | Skipton House, 80 London Road | London | SE1 6LH
T. 0207 972 2487
E. [10][email address]
W. [11]www.hra.nhs.uk
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