HOLY CRAP!
Two sites stand out from the #pfizerdocuments randomization log as major anomalies....
Site 1231 and Site 4444
You are not going to believe this.....
@AaronSiriSG @fynn_fan @ClareCraigPath @profnfenton
The biggest recruiter by far is site 1231.
In Argentina. Well of course, for a joint German-American drug where else?
Site 1231 recruited 4501 patients.
That is 10% of the patients AT ONE SITE.
ALL 4501 patients were recruited in 3 weeks.
WOW!
This is site 1231 from the @ICANdecide log
Recognise the name?
We'll come back to him in a sec....
The site is supposed to be the Military Central Hospital.
That's interesting.
It's also an interesting logo.
Seems to have given David Martin ideas for his website logo, but probably just coincidence. I dunno...
Anyway, it seems a bit odd that a principal investigator (who has to be a medical doctor) of a major international study is recruiting 4500 patients in 3 weeks at one site, without a CRO.
And working 7 days a week. No gaps. Recruitment every day incl Sat/Sun
@IamBrookJackson
Weekend recruitment for a clinical trial would be odd. Staff are needed to fill out that many record forms (CRFs) and there are potential risks to the trial, so you need medical staff. It would be highly unusual.
So who is he?
Here is his trial CV
Wait, hang on.
This is Fernando Polack.
The Fernando Polack who claims to be at Vanderbilt (USA) at the same time.
Who also happens to make appearances for the FDA...
Who also happens to work for The Infant Foundation and also happens to be funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the NIH
He is literally the busiest doctor on the planet infant.org.ar
But managed to find enough time to be the lead author on the #BNT162b2 paper (with all of Pfizer's scientists)
Yet while doing all this, he managed to find time to (presumably single-handedly because no other authors are listed at that site) recruit 4500 patients in 3 weeks, with each patient requiring 250 PAGES of case report forms (CRFs).
That is 1,125,000 pages of CRFs.
In 3 weeks.
But I'm sure that's totally above board until we get to the next totally above board feature of the fastest 44,000 patient study ever in history....
#site4444
WTF is site 4444?
@IamBrookJackson
There were 270 clinical recruitment sites for the Pflzer vaccine study, numbered consecutively from 1001 to 1270.
There are all listed here.
This is the last page.
There is no site 1271.
There is no other site with a number above 1270. icandecide.org/wp-content/upl…
Well that's a bit of a problem because...
There are a lot of entries in the randomisation log for #site4444.
1275 patients to be exact.
About 3% of the total.
And you know what?
All 1275 "patients" were recruited in one week - from 22nd to 27th September 2020.
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