In order to get emergency authorization use for a medicine or vaccine it has to be established that no other effective treatments or prophylactics exist. There were billions of reasons to suppress other effective options:
Pfizer/BioNTech: $40.7 billion, combined
Moderna: $19.2 billion
AstraZeneca: $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion
Johnson & Johnson: $1 billion to $3 billion
Novavax: $2.16 billion
https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/1...e-in-2021/
Pfizer/BioNTech: $40.7 billion, combined
Moderna: $19.2 billion
AstraZeneca: $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion
Johnson & Johnson: $1 billion to $3 billion
Novavax: $2.16 billion
https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/1...e-in-2021/