All you need to know: If there is a treatment extant for a disease, then the federal government cannot approve a vaccine by law The NIH, which is involved in approving medications, co-holds the patent on the Moderna vaccine (a complete conflict of interest!) When NIH and other public health agencies look at therapeutics, the conflict of interest of the federal government in bed with a vaccine company weighs large in the “decision-making” process (they don’t want a therapeutic to work because then they can vend their vaccine)