https://www.theburningplatform.com/2021/08/01/recipes-for-regulatory-corruption-how-cdc-nih-pull-in-millions-from-licensing-deals-including-covid-related-technologies/

“However, royalty-hungry scientists are not interested in “tried-and-true, classical … repurposing [of] drugs and strategies that have already been shown to work.” They prefer, in the words of Columbia University’s Dr. Ian Lipkin, novel treatments that are “sexy and new and patentable.

In short, off-patent drugs like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, and cheap supplements like vitamin C and vitamin D — often preventive as well as therapeutic — don’t generate royalties.

Nor do they mesh with the global control agenda the NIH’s new DARPA-like agency promises to facilitate. It is up to the public to reassert, strongly, that people and freedom come first.”