The Covid Reckoning is Coming: Federal Court Rules FDA Must Turn Over 'Million' Pages of Documents

"In a ruling issued on Friday, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth, Texas, directed the FDA to produce its 'emergency use authorization' file"...

“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” — Patrick Henry

A federal court has cleared the way to public transparency over the “Emergency Use Authorization” of the mRNA shots that were marketed to the public as “Covid vaccines.”

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to publicly disclose additional information underpinning its authorization of the novel mRNA therapeutics after the agency failed to persuade the court to dismiss a public records lawsuit.

In a ruling issued on Friday, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth, Texas, directed the FDA to produce its “emergency use authorization” file to a group of scientists seeking the licensing information relied upon to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine.

“The COVID-19 pandemic is long passed and so has any legitimate reason for concealing from the American people the information relied upon by the government in approving the Pfizer vaccine,” wrote Pittman, who was appointed in 2019 by then-President Donald Trump.

The lawsuit, filed in late 2021, garnered significant attention after the FDA revealed it could take decades to process and disclose the records requested by Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency, the group that initiated the case. The FDA declined to comment on the ruling.

Attorney Aaron Siri, representing the group, welcomed the order, stating:

“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.”

Siri also claimed the agency was “hiding from the court and the plaintiff one million pages of clinical trial documents from the COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials.”

The FDA, which has the authority to grant “emergency use authorization” for vaccines and other medical products, argued that its EUA file did not fall within the scope of the scientists’ records request.

In court filings, the FDA noted it has produced over one million pages of records related to the lawsuit and allocated more than $3.5 million to set up “unprecedented and extraordinary operations” to comply with Judge Pittman’s orders to expedite the search and release of responsive documents.

Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency, comprising professors and scientists from institutions such as Yale, Harvard, UCLA, and Brown, has made thousands of records available on its website.

The case is titled Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, No. 4:21-cv-01058-P.

President-Elect Donald Trump’s selection of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead the National Institutes of Health, as well as his pick of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the Department of Health & Human Services, is an unmistakable signal to Big Pharma: The Covid reckoning is coming.