WASHINGTON (SBG)- A team of scientists and professors want to publish the data behind the federal government's approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. There's just one problem: The FDA says it will take decades to process the paperwork.

FDA officials say it will take 55 years to release that data. That's because the request is 329,000 pages.

Those seeking the info include a group of more than 30 professors and scientists from universities including Yale, Harvard, and UCLA.

At the center of it all is the group Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency. They argue that making the Pfizer vaccine information public could help re-assure vaccine skeptics that the shot is safe.

But the FDA says it can't simply turn over the documents. Records must be reviewed and redacted, which is standard with Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests, as they include private information on patents and trade secrets.

"There are people on the fence about getting vaccinated because they don't feel that vaccines are safe and I am quite convinced that this is all going to be very reassuring data, but if you wait and you say it's going to take too long, that creates suspicion,” said Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease physician.

Attorneys for the group say given the vaccine's public interest, the FDA should have been preparing to release the data simultaneously with the licensing.

To meet the plaintiff's proposed 108-day deadline, the agency would have to release 80,000 pages a month, which is not likely.

A federal judge in Texas will consider the timeline for processing the documents during a hearing next month.