For a vaccine to get “Emergency Use Authorization”, it is necessary that there be no other viable treatment.
“Under section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), when the Secretary of HHS declares that an emergency use authorization is appropriate, FDA may authorize unapproved medical products or unapproved uses of approved medical products to be used in an emergency to diagnose, treat, or prevent serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions caused by CBRN threat agents when certain criteria are met, including there are no adequate, approved, and available alternatives. “
If there WAS a viable treatment, the the drug companies could not, legally, have been granted Emergency Use Authorization. It was therefore necessary that there was no other approved treatment.
nailed it!