(REPORT) Pressure to approve Covid vaccine boosters with ‘grossly insufficient’ data


A watchdog organization has gained access to 112 pages from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) showing top officials getting pressured by by outside companies and the Biden administration to approve Covid vaccine boosters without scientific justification.

The records were produced to Judicial Watch in response to a February 2022 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) after HHS failed to respond to a September 3, 2021, FOIA request for records of communication from the former director and deputy director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review (OVRR), Dr. Marion Gruber and Dr. Philip Krause, respectively. 

Drs. Gruber and Krause reportedly resigned during the White House’s push to rush approval the Covid-19 vaccine “booster shots.” 

On September 13, 2021, Gruber and Krause were among a group of resigning doctors who agreed that, “Available evidence doesn’t yet indicate a need for Covid-19 vaccine booster shots among the general population …” 

The doctors, along with other experts worldwide, published their viewpoint in The Lancet on Oct 29, 2021, arguing that the Covid-19 vaccines were still effective in preventing severe disease, including against the highly transmissible and dominant delta variant.

“Careful and public scrutiny of the evolving data will be needed to assure that decisions about boosting are informed by reliable science more than by politics,” the authors wrote, adding in part: “Widespread boosting should be undertaken only if there is clear evidence that it is appropriate.”

The records also include copies of emails that indicate the OVRR was being “bombarded” with emails from the pharmaceutical companies trying to exert pressure on the FDA scientists to approve the Covid-19 booster shots quickly and with “grossly insufficient” data.

Below is a detailed account of the email records:


The records include an August 25, 2021, email by Marion Gruber to her boss, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) Director Peter Marks:

Over the last couple of days, Janssen has bombarded us with emails regarding their booster dose studies.

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I am also very concerned that companies (such as Pfizer and Janssen) are trying to put pressure on OVRR [Office of Vaccines Research and Review] by way of PR [public relations]. We need to be given time to consider their data and cannot be pushed by these companies and, for that matter the Administration, who try to impose timeless [sic] that make no sense (e.g., Sep 20)…. It appears that at least Pfizer’s data will not be aligned with this approach and the ‘n’ [test numbers] they have is grossly insufficient. Obviously, we have to review the data but we have taken a peak and have serious concerns.

Lastly, and this is my personal opinion, data we have seen so far from various companies (Pfizer, Janssen, Moderna) appear to suggest that boosters are not needed.

In an email exchange on August 27, 2012, Gruber replies to an email from Maureen Hess, a communications specialist in Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research: “Well, the message appears to be ‘total buy-in in the need for boosters,’ this is not how I am writing the BD [likely board decision], I am trying to take a more neutral approach. This piece sounds as if we already decided to approve this supplement.”

Hess responds, “Okay, I’ll make some additional edits (but JW [likely Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock] was included on this statement – https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0818-covid-19-booster-shots.html – so our edits may be rejected above us.” After sending more emails about edits Hess made, Gruber replies, “From my perspective this is as good as it can get. Obviously, this statements [sic] puts us into a real bind but the damage is already done.”

In an Aug. 20, 2021, email exchange Dr. Doran Fink, the Deputy Director of the FDA’s Division of Vaccines and Related Products Applications raises questions regarding new data, that Moderna was submitting to FDA about its COVID vaccine. Fink told Drs. Gruber, Krause and other colleagues:

I had to bite my tongue when Peter [likely Dr. Peter Marks, Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research] mentioned this morning we wouldn’t be doing rushed reviews anymore so as not to ask about the booster doses that the administration promised to everyone by Sept 20!

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And then there is the question of the data that will support these booster doses – maybe I’m wrong, but my understanding is that Pfizer is proposing that their sBLA include the Phase 1 booster data from a grand total of 23 subjects. I’m not sure what Moderna will have, but the data Fauci presented in the press conference from NIAID studies, which was ~25 subjects per treatment arm.

Gruber states in an August 17, 2021, email “They [Dr. Doran’s team] fully understand that the Acting Commissioner would like to approve this product [Pfizer Covid booster vaccine] very soon and are trying their best to complete their review and assessment, while at the same time, maintaining our high standards and scientific and clinical integrity.”

Philip Krause,  in an August 10, 2021 email, complains: “It sounds like Peter [likely Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Peter Marks] thinks he has taken over all vaccine operations, not just the Pfizer BLA [Biologics License Application] …”

On August 23, 2021, Dr. Arnold Monto, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, emails Drs. Gruber and Krause using the subject “VRBPAC and boosters:”

The Surgeon General last night made a statement that the FDA and CDC advisory committees would be reviewing Hope that he misspoke about the VRBPAC (Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee) Doesn’t seem to be enough time to get it organized Just got asked about flu vaccination and Covid boosters being given at the same time. Gave my personal information, don’t

Gruber then replies to Monto: “We will be discussing the ‘booster question’ and related submissions including whether VRBPAC should be held. We do not know yet and you are right that timing will be an issue once again.”

On September 22, 2021, the FDA approved use of a booster dose of the Pfizer drug. According to the organization’s news release, the FDA, “amended the emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine to allow for use of a single booster dose, to be administered at least six months after completion of the primary series” for people at “high risk” of “severe COVID-19.” 

These FDA documents confirm a politicized approval process for the controversial Covid-19 vaccine booster shots. It is a scandal that it took months and a federal lawsuit to these troubling facts about this unprecedented and seemingly never-ending vaccine operation.”

Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch President

Read the court filing by clicking this link: (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (No. 1:22-cv-00292)). 


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6 thoughts on “(REPORT) Pressure to approve Covid vaccine boosters with ‘grossly insufficient’ data”

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  2. Boosted, Busted, and broken. Back in the day, the much-used comedy tag line was: “Is there a doctor in the house?!” The adjustment for 2022: “Is there an “honest” lawyer in the house?” In case anyone still doesn’t get the bigger picture, homo saps are supposed to get the genetic makeover, and transhumanism is supposed to be the solution for ultimate crowd control. AI rules in 2022. How do I know this? Because: by and large, people can no longer think for themselves. They need a smartphone app to think for them. Libraries are not on the entertainment list. The gamers are now in the billions and VR has become the place to “hang out” and socialize–granted in an anti-social context. But we’ve been told that social distancing is necessary for our “safety.” Enter our Nanny state creation: The Pharmommy. Pharm-mommy has the support of the Mad Ave matrix support team! Whoopee! And all those “news” outlets we grew up with…? Shills. Narrative creators. Magicians. Liars for hire.

  3. To this day, there is still NO vaccine for Covid – it’s a sham to keep calling the shots a vaccine. All part of the spin.

  4. BillGatesForPrison

    The entire shot and booster program is nothing more than a global grift to enrich the elites, exert enormous control over the global population, dethrone Donald Trump, and to depopulate the world to the extent possible.

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