COVID-19 Records

Sarah J. Imhoff

Senior Attorney, NIH Office of the General Counsel

Engagement

Authored22
Substantive (25+ words)22
Threads posted in2
Distinct active days12
Words authored8,434
Received (incl. group broadcast)20

Received counts include every message sent to a channel this person belonged to. That measures presence, not participation.

Statements

  • 4 own voice
  • 3 need context
  • 3 quoted / not their view

10 sentences were extracted and attributed to this person. Most are not their own opinion. Reporting the total as “10 statements” would misrepresent them.

Correspondents

PersonMediumMsgsSpan
Anna Kern email 93 2021-11-10 – 2022-01-25
Amanda Fine email 80 2021-11-10 – 2022-01-24
Lydia Polimeni email 63 2021-11-10 – 2022-01-24
Scott Prince email 61 2021-11-10 – 2022-01-24
David Lankford email 60 2021-11-10 – 2022-01-24
Crystal Spruill email 57 2021-12-01 – 2022-01-24
Renate Myles email 57 2021-12-01 – 2022-01-24
Haley Spencer email 10 2022-01-14 – 2022-01-24

Topics

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Statement record

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2021-12-06 quoted / not their view quoted_external · asserts · email
For example we posted about NIH's ending structural racism effort, and there were comments about Wuhan Institute of Virology and Ivermectin that were hidden for being off topic.

NIH Hid Public Comments Package, p.108 · original PDF · in context

2021-12-08 quoted / not their view quoted_external · asserts · email
Of course, there's always a chance that a Judge can issue a broad injunction that, say, concludes that the NIH social media pages are public forums, and that no "content-based restrictions" are allowed, i.e. moderating any comments based on subject matter.

NIH Hid Public Comments Package, p.2 · original PDF · in context

2021-12-22 needs context speaker_own · questions · email
In the meantime, I wanted to send you an answer to your question from our last call: Question: Could a decision in this case impact other NIH ICO social media accounts?

NIH Hid Public Comments Package, p.57 · original PDF · in context

2021-12-22 own voice, substantive speaker_own · asserts · email
However, the DOJ has this scope on their radar and they will be sure to be extremely clear with the court that this concerns only the two social media pages, and if there was a ruling adverse to NIH it should be limited to these two pages only.

NIH Hid Public Comments Package, p.57 · original PDF · in context

2021-12-22 own voice, substantive speaker_own · asserts · email
This is why the DOJ sees a broader application to other NIH social media accounts as a small risk.

NIH Hid Public Comments Package, p.57 · original PDF · in context

2021-12-22 needs context speaker_own · questions · email
In the meantime, I wanted to send you an answer to your question from our last call: Question: Could a decision in this case impact other NIH ICO social media accounts?

NIH Hid Public Comments Package, p.81 · original PDF · in context

2021-12-22 own voice, substantive speaker_own · asserts · email
However, the DOJ has this scope on their radar and they will be sure to be extremely clear with the court that this concerns only the two social media pages, and if there was a ruling adverse to NIH it should be limited to these two pages only.

NIH Hid Public Comments Package, p.81 · original PDF · in context

2021-12-22 own voice, substantive speaker_own · asserts · email
This is why the DOJ sees a broader application to other NIH social media accounts as a small risk.

NIH Hid Public Comments Package, p.81 · original PDF · in context

2021-12-27 needs context speaker_own · questions · email
To prove the point that inflammatory comments may dissuade interested citizens from visiting the social media pages: Has the NIH received any complaints about animal rights comments on its social media pages?

NIH Hid Public Comments Package, p.103 · original PDF · in context

2022-01-24 quoted / not their view hypothetical · asserts · email
If NIH had the resources to manually moderate its social media accounts on a more consistent basis, it would have done so.

NIH Hid Public Comments Package, p.72 · original PDF · in context