Informal Request for ATI Records Previously Released

Organization: Public Health Agency of Canada

Year: 2021

Month: October

Request Number: A-2021-000381

Request Summary: 1. All records 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 (ie. monkey kidney cells aka vero cells; liver cancer cells). Using "isolation" in every-day sense of the word: the act of separating a thing(s) from everything else. Not requesting records where "isolation of SARS-COV-2" refers instead to:·the culturing of something, or the performance of an amplification test (ie. a PCR test), or the sequencing of something. All such records that are in the possession, custody, control of Health Canada// 2. Confirmation the 'Delta variant' has been isolated per item 1//. 3. Confirmation the 'Lambda variant' has been isolated per item 1// 4. Confirmation the 'Mu variant' has been isolated per item 1// 5. Confirmation of any other variant that has been isolated per item 1// 6. Confirm the accuracy rate of a PCR test vs detecting false positives// 7. Confirm a PCR test can detect the 'Delta variant' and accuracy rate// 8. Confirm a PCR test can detect the 'Lambda variant' and accuracy rate// 9. Confirm a PCR test can detect the 'Mu variant' and accuracy rate// 10. Confirm any other variants the PCR test detects and accuracy rate// 11. Records showing the science that risk decreases while dining maskless in flight with no distancing.

Disposition: No records exist

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