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"Pfizer Tried To Hide the Hiring of 2,400 Employees To Handle Adverse Events

Apr 6, 2022

After a Texas federal judge ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to accelerate the release of the data it relied on to license the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 two-dose injection, the latest documents reveal that the drug company hired about 600 additional full-time employees with plans to hire 1,800 more by June 2021 to process the “large number of adverse events” they saw as early as February 28, 2021.

The rollout of the Pfizer injection led to an unprecedented number of reported adverse events, yet neither the drug company nor the FDA disclosed this critical information to the public.

This information was contained in a more than 11,000-page document cache released April 1, 2022 by the FDA as part of a court-ordered disclosure schedule stemming from an expedited Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The document, “Cumulative Analysis of Post-Authorization Adverse Event Reports” of the Pfizer-BioNTech injection, highlights adverse events identified through Feb. 28, 2021. The document was previously released in November 2021, but the number of employees Pfizer hired and planned to hire was redacted.

According to the unredacted document released April 1, “Pfizer has also taken a multiple actions [sic] to help alleviate the large increase of adverse event reports. This includes significant technology enhancements, and process and workflow solutions, as well as increasing the number of data entry and case processing colleagues. To date, Pfizer has onboarded approximately 600 additional full-time employees (FTEs). More are joining each month with an expected total of more than 1,800 additional resources by the end of June 2021.”

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