Court REJECTS FDA Request to Release Vaccine FOIA Documents Over the Next 55 Years

[Manuel Tavares]

Court REJECTS FDA Request to Release Vaccine FOIA Documents Over the Next 55 Years – Orders Agency to Turn Over Tens of Thousands of Pfizer Docs Monthly  

By Julian Conradson

Posted on 01/08/2022 by EraOfLight 

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On Thursday, a Federal Judge “soundly” rejected the FDA’s panicked request for permission to produce hundreds of thousands of documents related to Pfizer and the Covid vaccines at a rate of 500 pages per month after the agency was ordered to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request last month.

The FDA’s unbelievable request would have allowed them to take an unbelievable 55 years to produce all of the documents.

But thanks to Texas Northern District Judge Mark Pittman’s ruling, the agency will be forking those likely damning records over within the next few months, at a rate of 55,000 every 30 days.

The first deadline, which is on January 31st, requires the FDA to turn over 12,000 pages, with the rest coming monthly after that. 

From Pittman’s decision:

“Accordingly, the Court concludes that this FOIA request is of paramount public importance.

‘Stale information is of little value’ – the Court, agreeing with this truism, therefore concludes that the expeditious completion of Plaintiff’s request is not only practicable, but necessary. 

To that end, the Court further concludes that the production rate, as detailed below, appropriately balances the need for unprecedented urgency in processing this request with the FDA’s concerns regarding the burdens of production.

The FDA shall produce the “more than 12,000 pages” articulated in its own proposal, see ECF No. 29 at 24, on or before January 31, 2022.

The FDA shall produce the remaining documents at a rate of 55,000 pages every 30 days, with the first production being due on or before March 1, 2022, until production is complete.”

Wow. Considering what we got out of the first batch of documents, which was just 500 pages – you can bet there will be some damning data coming soon. ---> https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/01/court-rejects-fda-request-to...