Cancer, as a whole, has gotten way more money than Covid has. Half of all biotech VC money was going into cancer. No to mention big pharma's R&D budgets are heavily focused on cancer.
Cancer and heart disease each killed more people than Covid this year. But a working covid vaccine a lot easier to produce (this is something I'm saying on hindsight - 6 months ago I wouldn't have been so confident in the ease).
