"I can’t understand how leronlimab got this far without a real buyout offer"

I can. "Someone" thought that they could hammer the stock price down, impede the progress of Leronlimab, and take over the company with a slate of people who would then turn the company over for a small fraction of its actual value to the "someone" behind all this.

What's a few hundred thousand, or million, lives compared to "someone" making a big profit?