In line with Brett's comment on following the money, it's an absolute disgrace to humanity that the govts./media/tech/big pharma are doing everything to discredit/memory hole 1000's of doctors and scientists worldwide on the use of common drugs/treatments (HCQ, Ivermectin, vitamins and other holistic options) that show successful treatment. Hell, my Chinese wife tells me how people back home take HCQ and other treatments and get over cold/flu/Covid in days. In Africa, they use HCQ like we use aspirin/ibuprofen for malaria treatment, and almost no countries there have significant Covid outbreaks.
If you look hard enough, you'll see the reports that the WHO reclassified it's definition of a pandemic, and then all the pharmas made offers to the govts. for millions of vaccine doses to be developed, which many bought into.