Vaccines probably don’t help much either because they teach the immune system about specific parts of the virus and viruses that have more of them will die off while viruses which have fewer of them will not die off and evolution will cause viruses to mutate into versions which don’t have the same identifiable qualities. There may be a resultant attenuation of viral lethality but it would certainly become more infectious. This is completely opposite of the desired result.
Having a government or governments deciding how to do just about anything will eventually achieve something other than the desired result at least as far as us knowing what the actual desired result is. You never know with government what they want from what they say they want. Most people think governments are mostly benevolent when they want a law passed to restrict other people or a different ax instituted on the rich or a benefit that they desire. Governments have lots of fists wrapped in velvet gloves.