@draintodger
how many pfizer pages have now been released and have you got a breakdown, for simple plebs, of the content of what has been released so far?
Not 'Todger, but the total pagecount is around 59K (the March 55K batch, along with a couple earlier 500 page doc sets). The plaintiffs have a webpage where you can track the ongoing FOIA request activity, including a repo of all the Pfizer docs they've received thus far. It's
HERE. The most recent production set is the stuff delivered March 1st.
I haven't actually slogged through the contents, but the filetypes so far have been mostly PDFs and XLS spreadsheets, with some plaintext as well -- the latter is likely why this is 59K pages total, but only 150 individual files, although there are some bigass PDFs in the mix as well. (Excel spreadsheets are frequently gi-fucking-normous, when translated into formats that are paginated, especially if you don't take steps to trim out excess blank space. Plaintext also tends to be a lot higher pagecounts than you'd expect for the small size, since there's no rich multimedia embedded to bloat up the size, just loads of alphanumeric data. In my experience, 1 megabyte of plaintext tends to convert to about 1-2K pages when tiffed out into single-page static images.) They seem to be producing natively, rather than converting to TIFF or PDF to provide a universal format. That's a lot faster, but does require the recipient to have access to the appropriate software to open <whatever> filetype.
A quick skim seems to show that a lot of the current batch is various indexes of test patients by what comorbidities they had, along with patient study IDs that have no PII. For example, here's the "Diabetes With Complication" file, "Comorbidities Categories," and a snip from one of the patient lists. I attached copies of those examples if anyone's curious.


There's stuff in there that looks like it could be more interesting, though. I grabbed a couple PDFs that look to discuss one of the trials and attached them. Warning -- they are about 1400 pages a pop.
EDIT -- Typos.