By law, federal agencies are required to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request within 20 business days, but the FDA is asking for a delay of 55 years to a request for documents related to COVID-19 vaccines.
In court papers this week, the agency proposes that the plaintiffs in a FOIA lawsuit, Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency, see the full record in 2076, Reuters reported.
Earlier this month, hours before a CDC panel's approval of the Pfizer vaccine for children 5-11, the British Medical Journal published an article featuring a whistleblower's charge that poor practices at a contract research company helping to carry out the crucial third phase of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine trial last fall may have compromised data integrity and patient safety.
The government's central FOIA website allows for extension of the deadline, explaining the actual time for delivery of the documents "will vary depending on the complexity of the request and any backlog of requests already pending at the agency."
Justice Department lawyers representing the FDA argue the plaintiffs – a group of more than 30 professors and scientists from universities including Yale, Harvard, UCLA and Brown – are seeking a massive volume of documents, about 329,000 pages.
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