There is some truth to it, though. Big Pharma hates to develop vaccines because they aren't big money-makers. The most you have to take a vaccine is once a year, and many of them you only need to take once in your entire life. That's why the government has to dump a big pile of cash onto them whenever they need a vaccine. They would much rather put R&D into a pill that you have to take every day.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

The USA capitalist system effectively worships money more than God. It's not a conspiracy theory so much as a not unwarranted suspicion about for-profit drug companies' likely motivations and priorities. The only thing potentially keeping that at bay is the threat of someone else disrupting their cash flow with an actual cure - although that doesn't prevent them from burying cures they find themselves unless it benefits them, or significantly disadvantages a major competitor.