To put this into context …
Presumably this is to do with the the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) asking for 55 years to produce information requested under a Freedom of Information Application (FOIA) because it requires the review of some 329,000 pages of documentation.
The news report I read first is dated 18 November 2021 released via Reuters.
www.reuters.com/legal/government/wait-what-fda-wants-55-years-process-foia-request-over-vaccine-data-2021-11-18/
The plaintiffs, a group of more than 30 professors and scientists from universities including Yale, Harvard, UCLA and Brown filed suit in September 2021 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, seeking expedited access to the records. They say that releasing the information could help reassure vaccine skeptics that the shot is indeed “safe and effective and, thus, increase confidence in the Pfizer vaccine.”
But the FDA can’t simply turn the documents over wholesale. The records must be reviewed to redact “confidential business and trade secret information of Pfizer or BioNTech and personal privacy information of patients who participated in clinical trials,” wrote Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers in a joint status report filed Monday.
The FDA proposes releasing 500 pages per month on a rolling basis, noting that the branch that would handle the review has only 10 employees and is currently processing about 400 other FOIA requests.
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Plaintiffs' lawyers argue that their request should be top priority, and that the FDA should release all the material no later than March 3, 2022.
Then this dated 7 March 2022:
www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/97544
The FDA have now begun to turn over the documents, releasing 55,000 earlier this month.
The nonprofit that won the case, Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency, sued the FDA last September, claiming that the agency denied its request to expedite the release of COVID-19 vaccine review documents via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). In a November joint status report, the FDA proposed releasing around 500 pages of the documents each month -- which would fulfill the organization's FOIA request in about 55 to 75 years.
Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency includes several physicians known for spreading false or misleading information during the pandemic, including Aaron Kheriaty, MD, Harvey Risch, MD, PhD, and Peter McCullough, MD.
