This Does Not Smell Right: The FDA says it needs 55 years to release all of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine data

Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT), as its name suggests, is a medical transparency group that filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the FDA for documents tied to its approval of Pfizer’s BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The FDA went to court and informed the judge that it was totally willing to comply with the request—except that it will take almost 55 years to do so.

The Epoch Times reports that the FDA claims to possess 329,000 pages of documents responsive to PHMPT’s request. Further, the FDA posits that reviewing the documents and redacting exempt material will allow it to produce, at most, around 500 pages per month. At that rate, it will take 658 months—or 54 and 3/4 years to complete the requested production.

PHMPT’s attorney, Aaron Siri, instantly spotted the problem with the FDA’s claim that the volume of documents makes it impossible to produce them in a more timely manner:

It took the FDA precisely 108 days from when Pfizer started producing the records for licensure (on May 7, 2021) to when the FDA licensed the Pfizer vaccine (on August 23, 2021). Taking the FDA at its word, it conducted an intense, robust, thorough, and complete review and analysis of those documents in order to assure that the Pfizer vaccine was safe and effective for licensure. While it can conduct that intense review of Pfizer’s documents in 108 days, it now asks for over 20,000 days to make these documents available to the public.
So, let’s get this straight. The federal government shields Pfizer from liability. Gives it billions of dollars. Makes Americans take its product.

It's to provide the time for all those round-table committee meetings to determine what material in each and every page needs to be redacted. If Pfizer and FDA had nothing to hide, a master CD-R set could be created in about 100 hours, using a very slow scanner. Assuming coffee breaks and lunch, and using a single operator, the job would take 16 days.

Then it's off to the CD duplicators to make as many copies as necessary.

Obviously it is all the redaction, by high-level bureaucrats, that takes the time.

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