Federal law gave Anthony Fauci and the FDA a built-in reason to hope ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine failed.
The FDA cannot grant emergency authorization for a vaccine if an approved treatment is already shown effective against the same disease.
That single rule created a clear incentive problem for every regulator overseeing the vaccine program.
COVID vaccines turned into a $200 billion business, so any finding that early treatments looked too promising threatened the entire operation.
A conflict of interest does not require a conspiracy when the structure itself rewards one conclusion over another.
Leading trials never showed those drugs worked against COVID, and Kennedy’s point stays fixed on the incentives the decision makers faced.
Whether the drugs worked or not, the law meant the people in charge had every reason to hope they did not.
That is how you run a pandemic under a system designed to protect the expensive option.