More like they wanna keep their existing cash cow shit vaccines moving without scrutiny on those.

So much evidence already exists against Merck - literally a more cost-viable stategy to literally avoid COVID completely.

Now - why the hell they would say:

This decision follows Merck’s review of findings from Phase 1 clinical studies for the vaccines. In these studies, both V590 and V591 were generally well tolerated, but the immune responses were inferior to those seen following natural infection and those reported for other SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 vaccines.

That's - whut