by Sophie Mann at Just the News
The FDA is asking a federal judge to give the federal agency until the year 2076 to fully release its documents tied to the approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
The Food and Drug Administration made the request as part of a filing Monday in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by a medical transparency group.
The government informed the court that it has 329,000 pages of documents that apply to the FOIA request and suggested releasing 500 pages a month, a rate it believes would allow for the redactions of exempt material. The proposed rate would mean the FDA would not fully release the records in their entirety fThe FDA is asking a federal judge to give the federal agency until the year 2076 to fully release its documents tied to the approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine….or 55 years.
The plaintiff in the case, the Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT), filed the suit after the FDA denied its request to expedite the release of the records.
The FDA and the transparency group have not been able to reach an agreement on a disclosure so are seeking a hearing before a judge to argue the case.
“The FDA’s promise of transparency is, to put it mildly, a pile of illusions,” wrote an attorney, Aaron Siri, whose firm is representing PHMPT. “It took the FDA precisely 108 days from when Pfizer started producing the records for licensure to when the FDA licensed the Pfizer vaccine,” he continued.
“Taking the FDA at its word,…
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