Canadian researchers Freedom of Information request returns no record of Covid-19 isolated

Christine Massey, M.Sc.

Dear Christine Massey:

This letter is in response to the request you made to the National Research Council (NRC) under the Access to Information Act for records pertaining to:

“All records in the possession, custody or control of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) describing the isolation of a SARS-COV-2 virus, directly from a sample taken from a diseased patient, where the patient sample was not first combined with any other source of genetic material (i.e. monkey kidney cells aka vero cells; liver cancer cells).

Please note that I am using "isolation" in the every-day sense of the word: the act of separating a thing(s) from everything else. I am not requesting records where "isolation of SARS-COV-2" refers instead to:

•the culturing of something, or

•the performance of an amplification test (i.e. a PCR test), or

•the sequencing of something.

Please also note that my request is not limited to records that were authored by the NRC or that pertain to work done by the NRC. My request includes any sort of record, for example (but not limited to) any published peer-reviewed study that the NRC has downloaded or printed. If any records match the above description of requested records and are currently available to the public elsewhere, please provide enough information about each record so that I may identify and access each record with certainty (i.e. title, author(s), date, journal, where the public may access it).”

Your request was received by the NRC on June 13, 2020, and your application fee was received and processed on June 19, 2020.

A thorough search of NRC’s records has now been completed, and we regret to inform you that no records responsive to your request were identified.

Please note that in the processing of your request, NRC’s Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) Office confirmed that it was not possible to generate a list of publications as specified within the above-cited text. Specific details regarding access to publications by NRC researchers have not been centrally documented by NRC’s Human Health Therapeutics Research Centre, nor by the Library team responsible for NRC’s electronic collections and journal subscriptions. If you are not satisfied with this response, you are entitled to file a complaint with the Information Commissioner of Canada within 60 days (https://www.oic-ci.gc.ca/en/submitting-complaint) after the day on which you will have received this letter.

Yours sincerely, 2020-07-14

Maria Krioutchkova

ATIP Coordinator

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