FDA ordered to Release Vaccine approval Documents on Pfizer

By Dana Malcolm

Staff Writer

#USA, February 16, 2022 – In about eight months we’ll know exactly why the US Food and Drug Administration approved Pfizer‘s vaccine for COVID-19.

A Texas federal judge has ordered the FDA to make public the data it relied on to license the Pfizer vaccine expeditiously. You may remember last year a group of researchers requested information from the FDA about their decision to approve the Pfizer vaccine in an attempt to decrease vaccine hesitancy in the population.

The group said that making the information public would likely make people feel safer about taking the vaccine. The FDA said sure we can do that, but it would take about 55-75 years to make the documents ready for public viewing and protect Pfizer’s trade secrets.

The FDA made the excuse that there were so many other requests for information and such a small team of employees that to release the documents – under the Freedom of Information Act – would take over half a century.

A team of doctors and medical experts found the offer outrageous and filed a petition; they won.

The group of researchers brought the FDA to court insisting that the Administration release the documents in the same amount of time that it took to review and decide to approve the vaccine.

Texas judge Mark Pittman agrees and rejected the FDA’s suggested schedule.

Judge Pittman concluded  that the request was of paramount public importance. Under this ruling all the Pfizer data should be published by the start-up September.