“FDA respectfully requests that the January 6 Order be modified to provide that - for only the first two 30-day periods following FDA’s scheduled Januproduction - FDA’s monthly quota be adjusted to 10,000 pages per month,” the agency wrote on Jan. 6 court order required that FDA disclose more than 12,000 pages of information by the end of this month, and then 55,000 pages every 30 days, including the production of redacted versions of any documents for which FDA claims a privilege, exemption or exclusion. Pfizer notes in its brief the extent of the data that has already been made public around the safety and efficacy of its vaccine by the CDC, FDA and published in journals. While transparency is supposedly at the heart of this lawsuit, a closer look reveals it’s another ploy to drum up inaccurate anti-vaccine resentment.
While stressing that it supports the public disclosure of “the vast majority of this information to promote transparency and the public’s confidence in the vaccine,” Pfizer told the Texas district court that it only seeks to intervene in the case to ensure “information that is exempt from disclosure under FOIA is not disclosed inappropriately.”įDA loses FOIA suit over Pfizer vaccine documents, must release 55,000 pages per month What’s more, Pfizer told the court this week that it’s ready to intervene to help the agency redact those pages. An FDA court loss earlier this month has put the agency’s Freedom of Information Act office on its heels, as it now has to dump $4 million to $5 million into hiring 15 contractors to complete a historically swift anti-vaccine FOIA request that won a court-mandated release of 55,000 pages of data per month on Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine.
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