FDA ordered to accelerate release all Pfizer vaccine docs

FORT WORTH, TX, January 22, 2022 – Federal Judge Mark T. Pittman of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, on January 6, ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to accelerate the release of an estimated 451,000 pages of material related to the licensing of Pfizer’s BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

Originally, the FDA proposed a release schedule of 500 pages per month after a group of scientists issued a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, asking the U.S. Government to release the data it reviewed before licensing Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.  The latest order by Judge Pittman now accelerates this schedule to 55,000 pages per month. In other words, all the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine data will now be accessible to the public by the end of this summer instead of the year 2097.

The public can view the documents on the Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency’s (PHMPT) website. To view the Lynnwood Times article on the first set of FOIA released data, click here.