Communications regarding (only) discussion of airborne and aerosols

Your request has been emailed to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) because that agency is not yet using
the portal to respond to FOIL requests. The details of your request are shown below.
No further information will be available on the OpenRecords portal regarding this
request.

Request Title: Communications regarding (only) discussion of airborne and aerosols

Request Description: To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the New York Freedom of Information Law, I hereby request the following records:

Records of any discussions, memos, or emails which mention "aerosols", "aerosol", "airborne", in context of COVID (aka, SARS-CoV-2). I wish to only include records since December 1, 2019.

I continue to appreciate the effort and the patience of the employees at the NYC DOHMH FOIL unit. I have attempted to narrow this request to be much much narrower, instead requesting a single topic instead of several. This should return *far* fewer than the 1.7 million returned by my earlier request. In the event that it returns an unreasonably large number of records please assist me in further narrowing them to a point where you can review and release them.

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 5 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

ALEXANDER RICCIO

Upload documents directly: https://www.muckrock.com/


Requester's Contact Information



Name:
Alexander Riccio

Title:
Not provided

Organization:
Not provided

Email:
requests@muckrock.com (mailto:requests@muckrock.com)

Phone Number:
Not provided

Fax Number:
Not provided

Street Address (line 1):
Not provided

Street Address (line 2):
Not provided

City:
Not provided

State:
Not provided

Zip Code:
Not provided

Please contact the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) via email at foil@health.nyc.gov
for any further information. (mailto:foil@health.nyc.gov)

FOIL Control #: 2022FR02017

The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) acknowledges receipt of your Freedom of Information Law request. It has been assigned the above-noted control number and has been processing. You should receive a response within twenty(20) business days. Please note that as of January 1, 2019, the Department charges the statutorily allowable fee of 25¢ per page for FOIL responses of records maintained in hard copy format only.

All inquiries about the status of your request should be made with the control number noted above.

Thank you,

FOIL Administration(sb)

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

347-396-6116 (ph.)

347-396-6087 (f)

recordsaccess@health.nyc.gov<mailto:recordsaccess@health.nyc.gov>

Hi Mr. Riccio:

My apologies for the delay. I have conducted a search for records based on the language you provided in this FOIL request. "aerosol" OR "airborne" AND COVID for the date range you provided resulted in over 700,000 potentially responsive items.

Could you please narrow the parameters of your request?

Many thanks,
Bernadette