I didn't say everything got funded.
Read what I wrote - I said every government diverted billions to Covid research.
Many, many research scientists working on anything even remotely resembing infectious diseases, virology, etc, got diverted to doing Covid stuff. All sorts of things got funding that would not normally get funding.
So if there was a magical banana drug with even partially completed tests/trials, etc, it would probably have got funding if it had even a little merit.
<<<You don't really know anything about the specifics of how this works.>>>
Yes I do have some experience in the drug research field, and a close family member was one of those diverted scientists.