Perdue Pharma has been allowed to push "non-addictive narcotics" for over 20 years and the FDA barely feigns any resistance. But some folks find non-perfect but worth trialing effects from a couple drugs in combating a pandemic illness and they come out of the woodwork to fight that.

When the UN accidentally brought Cholera to Haiti in 2010 the US actively discouraged disemination of that information: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/04/what-caused-hait...

Follow the money.