When political correctness is put aside, SARS-CoV-2 is Covid-19's real name.
The combined staff of the CDC and the NIH is, at last count, about 31,000.
The American pharmaceutical company most engaged in the SARS-CoV-2 episode, Gilead Sciences, has a dodgy history, and is being sued by the U.S. Government for patent infringement.
Gilead's drug, Remdesivir, being pushed hard by the federal government's medical establishment, is a failed effort left over from the search for a hepatitis C drug.