Along with Accountable Pharma and Lower Drug Prices Now, we filed FOIA requests for the release of written agreements between federal agencies and Pfizer, BioNTech, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi Pasteur, and Novavax. 

FOIA request to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services seeking contracts with Novavax, Pfizer, Sanofi, and GlaxoSmithKline for coronavirus vaccine development.

FOIA request to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases seeking email communications regarding convalescent plasma therapy as a treatment for Covid-19.

The Food and Drug Administration stated that it had no records responsive to American Oversight's request for any employee questions, complaints, or concerns submitted to FDA ethics officials regarding politicization of the federal coronavirus response.

FOIA request to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services seeking email communications regarding convalescent plasma therapy as a treatment for Covid-19.

FOIA request to the Food and Drug Administration seeking email communications regarding convalescent plasma therapy as a treatment for Covid-19.

We’ve known for months that President Donald Trump has been downplaying the severity of the coronavirus. In the spring, we knew that Covid-19 wasn’t just like the seasonal flu, despite Trump’s reassurances that it was. And we’ve known that the pandemic won’t just “disappear,” no matter how many times the president insists it will.

During a Senate hearing, the NIH director and the U.S. surgeon general faced questions about rising concerns that vaccine development is being politicized by the president’s aggressive timeline. 

See the latest in our investigations into the administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, Pompeo’s unprecedented convention appearance, the cost of Chad Wolf’s July trip to Portland, and more.