A federal judge has denied, for now, an attempt from Pfizer to intervene in a case that has drawn international attention. U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, a Trump appointee, said Pfizer may be allowed to intervene if a reason for it to do so arises in the future, but not at this time. The case concerns documents on Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) used to grant emergency use authorization for the vaccine. Pfizer attorneys said during a recent hearing that the company is aligned with government defendants and a doctors’ group that sued the government for the documents in terms of wanting to get the information to the group in an expeditious manner, but they also said the parties “currently aligned interests could potentially diverge,” Pittman wrote in a brief order explaining his decision. “For instance, the parties could disagree about which documents, or portions …
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