Specifics of airborne precautions and mitigations
| Tracking # |
60877 |
| Submitted | Oct. 18, 2023 |
| Est. Completion | None |
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From: ALEXANDER RICCIO
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
Any non-exempt records dated between December 1, 2019 and December 1, 2022 created or naming the following individuals:
Dr. Anthony S Fauci (Director)
Dr. Cristina Cassetti (Deputy director, div microbiology and infectious diseases)
Roshawn Treadwell-Hyde (Dr. Cassetti's assistant)
Lerner, Andrea Office of Clinical Research Resources
Dr. Seema Nayak, Director, Office of Clinical Research Resources
Melinda Haskins, Chief, Office of Communications and Government Relations
Courtney Billet, Director, Office of Communications and Government Relations
Cynthia Fabry, Deputy, Director Office of Communications and Government Relations
The following individuals from the Office of Regulatory Affairs, should they have been employed at the time:
Janice Arega, Director
Kimya B. Alexander, DMID Agreements Coordinator
Dr. Lei Huang, Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager
Dr. Steve Huang, Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager
Ahsen Khan, Agreements Contractor
Dr. Aparna Kolhekar, Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager
Jonathan McInnes, Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager
Dr. Nicholas Obiri, DMID Agreements Coordinator, Contractor
Rhonda Pikaart-Tautges, Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager
Janie Russell, Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager
Blossom Smith, Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager
Dr. Sue Yuan, Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager
Dr. Eric Zhou, Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager
The following individuals at the Office of Clinical Research Resources (OCRR), should they have been employed at the time:
Dr. Cristina Cardemil, Medical Officer
Dr. Maryam Jahromi, Medical Officer
Dr. William Sears, Medical Officer
Dr. Kay Tomashek, Medical Officer
The following individuals at the Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Office of the Director, should they have been employed at the time:
Dr. Emily Erbelding, Director
Dr. John Beigel, Associate Director for Clinical Research
Dr. Jane Knisely, Pandemic Preparedness Strategy Coordinator
The following individuals at the Respiratory Diseases Branch (RDB), should they have been employed at the time:
Dr. Michael Ison, Branch Chief
Respiratory Pathogens Clinical Research Section
Dr. Chris Roberts, Section Chief
Sonja Crandon, Nurse Consultant and Clinical Project Manager
Dr. Catherine Luke, Clinical Scientific Lead
Dr. Dikoe Makhene, Medical Officer
Dr. Kevin Schully, Clinical Scientific Lead
Erica Sondergaard, Nurse Consultant and Clinical Project Manager
Melinda Tibbals, Clinical Project Manager and Clinical Agreements
The following individuals at the Viral Respiratory Diseases Section, should they have been employed at the time:
Dr. Diane Post, Section Chief
Dr. Michelle Arnold, Program Officer, Viral Respiratory Immunity Research Program
Dr. Nita Basu, Program Officer, Viral Respiratory Drug Development and Diagnostic Development
Steven Black, Program Coordinator, Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Response (CEIRR)
Dr. Kate Bradford-Plimack, Program Officer, Coronavirus Pathogen Biology Research Program
Dr. Brooke Bozick, Program Officer, Influenza and Rhinovirus Pathogen Biology and Clinical Research
Christian Gonzalez, Program Officer, Viral Respiratory Product Development
Dr. Jennifer Gordon, Program Officer, Influenza and Coronavirus Vaccine Development
Dr. Chelsea Lane, Program Officer, Collaborative Influenza Vaccine Innovation Centers (CIVICs)
Dr. Erik Stemmy, Team Lead/Program Officer, Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Response (CEIRRs)/iDPCC
...for records containing the terms: "n95", "p95", "n100", "p100", "respirator", "elastomeric", "OSHA", "Occupational hazard", "workplace safety", "workplace hazard", "worker safety", "workers compensation", "negligence", "precaution", "precautionary", "precautionary principle", "worker protections", "airborne hazard", "respiratory hazard", "air sanitation", "respiratory protection program", "costly regulations", "costly regulatory requirements", "occupational safety", "engineering controls", "hierarchy of controls", "undue burden", "onerous", "burdensome",
...but also the terms:
"ventilation", EXCEPT in reference to the assistive breathing apparatus and/or the manual use of a balloon to support breathing in an emergency care setting
"ventilate", EXCEPT in reference to the assistive breathing apparatus and/or the manual use of a balloon to support breathing in an emergency care setting
"ventilating", EXCEPT in reference to the assistive breathing apparatus and/or the manual use of a balloon to support breathing in an emergency care setting
"Ventilated", EXCEPT in reference to the assistive breathing apparatus and/or the manual use of a balloon to support breathing in an emergency care setting
"Air flow", EXCEPT in reference to the assistive breathing apparatus and/or the manual use of a balloon to support breathing in an emergency care setting.
In the event that I have specified a name for which that role/position was filled by a different individual at any point during the search period, I additionally request documents responsive with regard to the individual who held said role during the search period.
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 20 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
ALEXANDER RICCIO
From: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Dear ALEXANDER RICCIO, This is an automated message from the NIH FOIA Request Portal. Your submission has been received by the National Institutes of Health. NIH will review your request and contact you regarding next steps. Regards, National Institutes of Health, FOIA Program
From: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Dear ALEXANDER RICCIO,
The status of your FOIA request #60877 has been updated to the following status 'Received'. To log into the NIH FOIA Public Portal click on the Application URL below.
https://foiaportal.nih.gov
Sincerely,
National Institutes of Health
From: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
October 20, 2023
Dear Mr. Riccio:
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH) would like to provide an update on your NIH FOIA requests No. 60877 and No. 60878. These requests have been combined into one request, 60877. Please note, 60878 was closed.
Your request 60877 has been placed on-hold for fees and clarification related reasons.
Due to unusual circumstances, the request involves a "voluminous" amount of records that must be located, compiled, and reviewed, we are unable to process your request in the statutory required 20 working days and will need an extension of 10 working days. Additionally, at this time, we have determined that more than 10,000 pages are necessary to respond to your request, and we will still charge all accrued fees at the completion of the processing of your request.
We would like to provide you with an opportunity to modify the scope of your request (revise search terms to less broad terms), narrow down email custodians to key decision-making personnel, and/or arrange an alternative time period for processing the request. Please understand that the provided scope of custodians and search terms are going to delay processing by years and also result in a lot of unnecessary records that will be searched for relevancy and responsiveness. We need more clarity on what records you seek to find, in order to provide materials sooner.
If you have any questions or wish to discuss reformulation or an alternative time frame for the processing of your request, you may contact me, Qianna Norman, at Qianna.Norman@nih.gov. If you insist on keeping the request as written, it will remain on a “fee-related hold” until we determine a monetary amount of pre-payment that you will need to pay in order to start processing your request.
Please provide a response no later than, Friday October 27, 2023 to this email.
I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Qianna Norman
Government Information Specialist
NHLBI
From: ALEXANDER RICCIO
I would prefer you keep the two requests separate so that we may narrow them individually, but if you believe there are many duplicate emails, and it is easier for FOIA employees to handle, I am happy to break this request up into multiple individual requests later today.
From: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
October 25, 2023
Hello Mr. Riccio:
Thank you for your response. The FOIA office combined the two requests to insure processing times remain consistent for both searches. It’s our advisement to keep the requests combined as one.
Your response to my email, unfortunately, did not address the issues of the scope of your request. It’s our advisement that you withdraw FOIA request No. 60877 and resubmit a new request where you narrowly describe the scope. For example, only list key decision-making personnel from NIAID, provide a limited number of search terms that are not broad to eliminate email results that are voluminous, and provide a date range that is not broad in timeframe. Please understand that the current scope of email custodians and search terms that you provided in your initial request will delay processing by years and also result in a lot of unnecessary records that will be reviewed for relevancy and responsiveness. We need more clarity on what records you seek to find, in order to provide materials to you sooner.
If you insist on keeping 60877 as written, it will remain on a “fee-related hold” until we determine a monetary amount of pre-payment that you will need to pay in order to start processing your request.
If you have any questions or wish to discuss the reformulation for processing your request, you may contact me, Qianna Norman, at Qianna.Norman@nih.gov.
Please provide a response no later than, Wednesday November 1, 2023 to this email.
I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you
V/r,
Qianna Norman, M.A. (she/her/hers)
Government Information Specialist
Freedom of Information and Privacy Act Branch/FOIA Service Center
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From: ALEXANDER RICCIO
Ok, I shall withdraw and resubmit more narrowly. Before I do that - how long can I be confident that records will be retained by the agency? I am not familiar with federal records retention durations.
From: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Dear ALEXANDER RICCIO,
The status of your FOIA request #60877 has been updated to the following status 'Closed'. To log into the NIH FOIA Public Portal click on the Application URL below.
https://foiaportal.nih.gov
Sincerely,
National Institutes of Health
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