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District Judge Mark Pittman opened his order ( pdf), issued on May 9, which requires the FDA to produce the data on Moderna’s and Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccines at an average rate of at least 180,000 pages per month. “Democracy dies behind closed doors,” is how U.S. In a decision hailed as a win for transparency by the lawyer representing the plaintiffs (the parents of a child injured by a COVID-19 vaccine) in a lawsuit ( pdf) against the FDA, the Texas judge ordered the FDA to produce the data about ten times faster than the agency wanted.
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(Christof Stache/AFP via Getty Images)Ī federal judge in Texas this week ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make public data it relied on to license COVID-19 vaccines-Moderna’s for adults and Pfizer’s for children-at an accelerated rate, requiring all documents to be made public by mid-2025 rather than, as the FDA wanted, over the course of around 23.5 years.

Vials of the COVID-19 vaccines Comirnaty by Pfizer/BioNTech and the Moderna vaccine (C) against the novel coronavirus stand on a table in a vaccination center in Sonthofen, southern Germany, on Nov.
