The US Medicines Authority was accused of withholding information about the Pfizer vaccine

The Asociation Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency or PHMPT, for its acronym in English, came to accuse the US Food and Drug Authority (FDA) of hiding Pfizer’s data on its coronavirus vaccine, a product for which the pharmaceutical multinational has received complete legal immunity from any injury that may be caused by that biological product.

It was in two of the briefs in support of the lawsuit filed with the Justice of that country and that fell to the judge of Distrito Mark T. Pittman under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Pittman ruled on January 6 in favor of PHMPT, ordering the FDA to deliver all the information on Pfizer’s anti-COVID vaccine, as established by the United States Code of Federal Regulations.

PHMPT, a non-profit association made up of 75 personalities, including professors from the main universities in the country, public health professionals, doctors and journalists, sings the boatman’s truths about the FDA’s attitude in his lawsuit.

It was brought, on his behalf, by a joint team of five lawyers: Aaron Siri, Elizabeth Brehm Y Gabrielle G. Palmer, from the firm Siri & Glimstad, of New York, and by John Howie, managing partner of Howie Law, of Dallas, Texas.

“While hiding Pfizer’s data from the public, the federal government granted Pfizer, and anyone associated with the administration of its vaccine, complete legal immunity from any injury it might cause,” recalls the PHMPT.

“Pfizer is even immune from liability for willful misconduct unless the federal government, which promoted and licensed this product, first files a claim,” it clarifies.

He adds: “So, to be clear, Americans are required to receive Pfizer’s product, but if they are injured, they cannot sue anyone related to this vaccine, and yet the government refuses to allow outside scientists to review the data that supports your security, “he adds.

THE US GOVERNMENT HAS PAID PFIZER $17.65 BILLION FOR THE VACCINE [15.424.599.750 €]

Remember that The Executive «gave Pfizer 1,950 million dollars [1.704.036.750 euros] in public funds to promote the development of its vaccine through an advance purchase agreement.

Then that same government “paid Pfizer more than 15.7 billion dollars [13.719.680.500 euros] of the American people to buy that product. Subsequently, he spent 18,750 million dollars [16.384.968.750 euros] more of the Americans’ money to promote that product,” he stresses.

Yet when it comes to being transparent with those same American citizens, the FDA says it can’t muster the resources to produce the same documents it reviewed in 108 days to license.

THE FDA ANSWERED PHMPT THAT IT WOULD TAKE TO DELIVER ALL THE DOCUMENTATION

On August 27, 2021, just four days after the FDA approved Pfizer’s vaccine, PHMPT filed with the Medicines Authority a FOIA request to be provided with documents about the vaccine that were to be “immediately available” for the vaccine. citizenship.

It is what the FDA has to do after granting a license, as stated in the Code of Federal Regulations.

That includes, among other things, “all safety and efficacy data and information,” “a trial or study protocol” for the vaccine, “reports of adverse reaction reports,” and “all correspondence and written summaries of the oral discussions related to the biological product dossier’.

The FDA told PHMPT that there were more than “329,000 folios that responded to the FOIA request,” not including other spreadsheet files.

And he promised to deliver 500 pages a month, arguing that he did not have enough staff for more.

“At that rate, it will take the FDA at least 54 years and 10 months to turn over all the documents, which is not exactly FOIA compliant,” the PHMPT states.

A process that would last until 2076.

The Act says that the agency “shall make the records available to interested parties promptly.”

The FDA has a staff of 18,000 people and a budget of 6,000 million dollars, something that Judge Pittman later appreciated.

THE NEED FOR INDEPENDENT EFFECTIVENESS STUDIES OF THE PFIZER VACCINE

“This extraordinary state of affairs leads to an unprecedented need for transparency,” he stresses.

And it draws attention, in a special way, to the fact that «currently, the only entities that have reviewed the complete data are Pfizer and the FDA, who are immune from any lawsuit and who are under enormous political pressure to deliver vaccines quickly. If Americans can’t say no and can’t sue for damages, then the safety and efficacy of vaccines must be subjected to the most rigorous review possible.”

In the fields of science and health, “rigorous review means independent peer review.”

“The entire purpose of the Freedom of Information Act is to ensure government transparency. It is hard to imagine a greater need for transparency than the immediate disclosure of the documents that the FDA relied on to authorize a product that is now being imposed. to more than 100 million Americans under penalty of losing their careers, their incomes, their military service status, and much worse.”

PHMPT also criticizes the FDA for, instead of providing all the documentation to US citizens, as established by law, it has done just the opposite.

THE FDA HAS NOT RELEASED A SINGLE DOCUMENT

This association also highlights that “despite the 84 days that have elapsed since the granting of the license [desde noviembre] and of the 192 days that have passed since Pfizer began submitting the registrations to obtain the license, The FDA has not made public a single document submitted by Pfizer for the licensing of its anti-COVID-19 vaccine. not a single page“, he explains in the document presented last November.

Judge Pittman finally forced the Medicines Authority to deliver 177,000 of the 325,000 pages on the vaccine until April, and the rest in the following months.

The objective of PHMPT is to upload all the documents to its web portal so that they can be downloaded and analyzed by all those interested in knowing the composition of the Pfizer vaccine.

This association was created precisely for this.

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