A federal judge has just ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to release the sealed documents for pharmaceutical Pfizer’s Covid mRNA “vaccine” trials.
Pfizer and the FDA have been battling in the courts to keep the documents hidden from the public for 75 years.
However, the Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT) brought a high-profile case against the FDA to force the release of over one million pages of documents.
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas has just ruled against the FDA and ordered the release of the Pfizer docs.
The files are related to the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid mRNA “vaccine.”
The decision mandates the FDA to release the EUA file for the Pfizer injection no later than June 30, 2025.
The case stemmed from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the PHMPT.
The PHMPT is a group of scientists and public health professionals seeking comprehensive data on the vaccine’s approval process.
The FOIA request sought comprehensive data related to the Pfizer “vaccine.”
The FDA had tried to keep the documents sealed for the next few decades, or until most adults alive during the pandemic were no longer around.
The federal agency claimed it would need up to 75 years to process and release the requested documents.
However, President Donald Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman rejected this argument.
The Texas judge cited the importance of government accountability and gave the FDA just under seven months to release the documents to the public.
In late 2021, the FDA faced significant public scrutiny after demanding the documents be sealed for 75 years.
The FDA’s push to hide the files for several decades was exposed in a previous FOIA request by the PHMPT.
The federal agency suggested releasing 500 pages per month from a collection exceeding 300,000 pages.
This would have effectively delayed complete disclosure until around 2097.
The FDA cited limited staffing and the extensive volume of documents as reasons for this prolonged timeline.
On Friday, Judge Pittman mandated the FDA to expedite the release of documents related to the Pfizer “vaccine.”
In his ruling, Pittman ordered the FDA to release the “emergency use authorization” file to the public.
The judge noted there is no longer a valid reason to withhold the information following the pandemic’s conclusion.
The FDA has already produced over a million pages of documents in response to the lawsuit.
However, the plaintiffs argue that the FDA is holding back critical information.
In a statement, attorney Aaron Siri, who is representing the plaintiffs, said:
“The FDA clearly lacks confidence in the review that it conducted to license Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine because it is doing everything possible to prevent independent scientists from conducting an independent review.”
“The FDA was hiding from the court and the plaintiff one million pages of clinical trial documents from the COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials.”
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