
Aaron Siri on Reuters
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has offered to release 12,000 pages of data by the end of January that it relied on to license Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine. However, a group of scientists and doctors suing the agency under the Freedom of Information Act is seeking an estimated 400,000 additional pages about the vaccine’s approval.
Under the FDA’s proposed schedule of releasing a minimum of 500 pages per month after the initial 12,000 pages, the full trove might not be made public until the year 2097. As Aaron Siri of Siri & Glimstad, representing the plaintiff group Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency, stated, the release rate is “so slow that the documents will not be fully produced until almost all of the scientists, attorneys, and most of the Americans that received Pfizer’s product, will have died of old age.”