A hearing is scheduled to take place in a legal case brought by a whistleblower who confirmed that violations occurred during the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial.
The company Ventavia failed to properly report adverse events and keep all participants blinded, according to internal communications revealed by Brook Jackson, the whistleblower.
Pfizer paid ICON, a clinical research group to oversee the vaccine trial, and ICON contracted with Ventavia and other companies to run trial sites.
Jackson was hired by Ventavia in September 2020. She worked on clinical trials for 18 years. One company official described her as an expert. She was fired 18 days after starting, on the same day she alerted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to the trial issues….