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PFIZER EMPLOYEE BLOWS WHISTLE ON RESEARCH FRAUD IN VAxx SAFETY TRIALS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Submitted by Harold Saive<\/p>\n Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer\u2019s vaccine trial<\/p>\n BMJ:\u00a0 Revelations of poor practices at a contract research company helping to carry out Pfizer\u2019s pivotal covid-19 vaccine trial raise questions about data integrity and regulatory oversight. Paul D Thacker reports<\/p>\n In autumn 2020 Pfizer\u2019s chairman and chief executive, Albert Bourla, released an open letter to the billions of people around the world who were investing their hopes in a safe and effective covid-19 vaccine to end the pandemic. \u201cAs I\u2019ve said before, we are operating at the speed of science,\u201d Bourla wrote, explaining to the public when they could expect a Pfizer vaccine to be authorised in the United States.1<\/p>\n But, for researchers who were testing Pfizer\u2019s vaccine at several sites in Texas during that autumn, speed may have come at the cost of data integrity and patient safety. A regional director who was employed at the research organisation Ventavia Research Group has told The BMJ that the company falsified data, unblinded patients, employed inadequately trained vaccinators, and was slow to follow up on adverse events reported in Pfizer\u2019s pivotal phase III trial. Staff who conducted quality control checks were overwhelmed by the volume of problems they were finding. After repeatedly notifying Ventavia of these problems, the regional director, Brook Jackson, emailed a complaint to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Ventavia fired her later the same day. Jackson has provided The BMJ with dozens of internal company documents, photos, audio recordings, and emails.
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