Umm, that's too easy to answer; billions of dollars in profits.
How much is Big Pharma making from COVID-19 vaccines? We’re about to find out
How Big Pharma Profited During The Pandemic
According to the People's Vaccine Alliance, vaccine profits have created at least nine new billionaires, worth a combined $19.3 billion, which is enough to fully vaccinate some 780 million people in low-income countries.
You and I had the pleasure of enriching these people, while we were simultaneously drained of our reserve resources.
My point was really the order of operations.
It seems to me that a vaccine is Step 2.
You need a step 1 first and that would be the existence of a Virus. Once you have that, then you create the necessary vaccine and sell that for billions.
But a “vaccine arms race” cannot exist in a vacuum. That's a Step2 without a Step 1.
The bio-weapons lab had to create the Virus first. That's their Step 1 on the way to making billions of dollars.
I think the article is emphasizing vaccine development and glossing over the necessary fact that this guys built the Virus.