Or take any cancer drug approval over the past decades, those all had phase 3 trials that succeeded before the drug was released.
I have to admit that I can even conceive of what your point is here, or why you are acting so emotional and indignant about the required step before drug approval, as if it doesn't exist.
You know damn well that wasn’t even remotely the normal process.
It’s ok, you don’t need to pretend anything about Covid was “by the book”.