Judge rules FDA can’t keep vaccine docs secret ‘until 2096’
A federal judge said the drug regulator must radically accelerate its release of hundreds of thousands of files on the Pfizer jab
By: RT News (https://www.rt.com/)
*Link to full article: https://www.rt.com/news/545350-fda-pfizer-vaccine-documents/
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been ordered to hasten the publication of documents related to Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine by more than one-hundred-fold, after the agency claimed the disclosure would take decades.
In a ruling on Thursday, District Judge Mark Pittman rejected previous arguments from the FDA after it said it might take decades, possibly until 2096, to complete the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Though the agency said it could only process and publish around 500 pages each month, Pittman said it would have to pick up the pace – instead ordering it to put out 55,000 pages in the same time span.
“The court concludes that this FOIA request is of paramount public importance,” the judge wrote, adding that the timely completion of the release is “not only practicable, but necessary.”
