The nonprofit group suing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the release of documents related to the approval of Pfizer’s Comirnaty vaccine calculated it should take the agency only 12 weeks with 19 reviewers working full-time to review and produce the documents.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials skipped the start of oral arguments Tuesday as a federal district court weighed whether the agency can take 75 years to fully release documents on Pfizer’s Comirnaty COVID vaccine, according to a lawyer representing plaintiffs who sued the FDA for the documents.
A U.S. Department of Justice lawyer representing the FDA told the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas the agency will produce more than 329,000 related documents as fast as it can, while safeguarding personally identifiable information and Pfizer trade secrets.
Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT), the group behind the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and subsequent lawsuit, is seeking safety and effectiveness data, adverse reaction reports and a list of active and inactive vaccine ingredients.
PHMPT is a group of more than 30 scientists, medical professionals, international public health professionals and journalists. The group’s lawsuit argues the FDA is overestimating the time needed and understaffing the job.
“Assuming a low average of 50 pages per hour per person, even to review the hundreds of thousands of pages the FDA estimates, the agency would need just 19 reviewers to work full-time for 12 weeks to review and produce these documents — which is a tiny fraction of its approximately 18,000 employees,” said PHMPT in a legal brief filed Monday.
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Via https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-pfizer-comirnaty-vaccine-data-twelve-weeks/
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One has to wonder whom or what the FDA is working for. Both the FDA and the CDC seem to have ranged far afield of their original stated purposes.
Perhaps we need to acknowledge that they are more beholden to Pharma than to the people (citizens and taxpayers) who theoretically justify their exisience.
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As I understand the CDC depends on the CDC foundation for much of its revenue, and the foundation derives most of its income from pharmaceutical companies: https://www.cdcfoundation.org/
The FDA receives 45% of its income from user fees: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/08/27/fact-check-some-fdas-budget-does-come-industry-funding/5572076001/
I guess you have to follow the money.
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I smell Rockerfellers
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Me, too, Trace.
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I think so, too, but the money is all suspect.
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Interesting that Pfizer and the likes have been protected from liability. Interesting to note that the FDA has not. Guess who is liable when it all goes to manure. We are.
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As I understand, onnovocks, Pfizer is still (criminally) liable when they commit fraud, and they falsified the original Covid vaccine studies they submitted to the FDA.
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Reblogged this on Independent Citizens.
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