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April 2021 Pfizer-BioTech COVID-19 Vaccine safety report on Myocarditis and Pericarditis

Erika Whittome made this Official Information request to Ministry of Health

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From: Erika Whittome

Dear Ministry of Health,
I understand that one of the gazetted requirements for the Pfizer COvid-19 medicine's provisional approval here https://gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/2021-g... was to review safety reports. This notice was from Chris James 3rd day of February 2021, Group Manager, Medsafe, Ministry of Health . Safety reports are specified in conditions 56 and 57 of the gazette notice.

I refer you to a particular safety Pfizer report page 3 which is published here on https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/servic... which is for the reporting period 1-29 April 2021 Pfizer-BioTech COVID-19 Vaccine safety report on Myocarditis and Pericarditis. This is SMSR 5, or summary monthly safety report #5, PF-07302048 (BNT162b2)

Would you please share all the meeting minutes, memos, correspondence, and promulgation of this report at Medsafe, DHBs and the Ministry of Health ie "Pfizer-BioTech COVID-19 Vaccine safety report on Myocarditis and Pericarditis" for 1-29 Apr 2021 SMSR 5?

Yours faithfully,

Erika Whittome

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Kia ora Erika,

 

Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the
Act), received by the Ministry of Health on 3 June 2025. You requested:

 

Would you please share all the meeting minutes, memos,  correspondence,
and promulgation of this report at Medsafe, DHBs and the Ministry of
Health ie "Pfizer-BioTech COVID-19 Vaccine safety report on Myocarditis
and Pericarditis"  for 1-29 Apr 2021 SMSR 5?

 

The reference number for your request is H2025067924. As required under
the Act, the Ministry will endeavour to respond to your request no later
than 20 working days after the day your request was received:
http://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/.   

 

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OIA Services Team 
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From: Erika Whittome

Dear OIA Requests,

The report referred to above is also published in this URL https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/c...

Yours sincerely,

Erika Whittome

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