Well, there’s this:
Those experiments were a stepping stone towards two of the most important and profitable vaccines in history: the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines given to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Global sales of these are expected to top US$50 billion in 2021 alone.
Might have something to do with it.
Also might explain why they’re pushing so hard for “boosters” that would require the use of hundreds of millions more doses in this country alone.