Merck, aka a "Big Pharma" makes next to nothing on it's drug Ivermectin. The patent has expired, and it's very very cheap.
There can't be any multi-billion dollar sales of Ivermectin..... but new kid on the block and patent controlled Remdeathivir.... Now that's a horse of a different color....and no worries.... No one can be sued or held accountable, and billions can be made, and many palms greased.....
That's the ugly world we live in when the FDA and Big Pharma are bedfellows.
A most inconvenient truth.