The research, supported by the National Institutes of Health, may reassure some patients after a European drug safety agency raised concerns last year.
The documents were leaked to the
British Medical Journal (BMJ) after a cyberattack on the EMA in December 2020.
Details from the leaked emails
According to the leaked documents, the researchers in charge of evaluating the chemicals sent to the bloc for approval in 2020 discovered that the doses were of a lower standard than Pfizer had promised.
Back in November 23, 2020, an email from a senior EMA warned of a “significant difference” in the quality of the vaccines compared to doses used in Pfizer’s clinical trials.
It remains unknown why earlier batches of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were of poorer quality. The email also revealed that the impact on the safety and efficacy of the vaccine was “yet to be defined.”
Europe’s pharmaceutical regulator confirmed in December 2020 that data had been breached in a cyber attack on the European Medicines Agency (EMA), adding that some.
7 March 2021, 9:30 pm EST By COVID-19 Vaccine Information Stolen by Chinese and Russian Hackers: Shipping Destinations and Purchase Sizes Targeted ( Photo by Prasesh Shiwakoti (Lomash) on Unsplash )
China and Russia are now reportedly behind two different cyberattacks that had happened last year over at the European Medicines Agency. This cyberattack had been said to compromise certain documents that were related to COVID-19 vaccines as well as their treatments.
COVID-19 vaccination information breach
According to the article by Gizmodo, this is according to sources that are familiar with the supposed ongoing investigation who had spoken with the Dutch newspaper called De Volkskrant as reported by Reuters. Back in December, the said Amsterdam-based European drug regulator had released a public statement disclosing a particular breach and launched
The Amsterdam-based European drug regulator in December reported a cyberattack in which documents relating to COVID-19 vaccines and medicines were stolen and leaked on the internet.