The problem with Covid is how it was handled worldwide and it rubbed many people the wrong way. And in USA people saw a lot of hypocrisy from the left as usual. They want to deny people gathering anywhere including church but they allow their lunatics to destroy and burn cities in their "summer of love".
A lot of countries in Europe had enough with the lockdowns too and they had protests.
So the way that it was handled it rubbed people the wrong way and for better or worse it further delegitimized any serious issues that may come up in the future.
It is what it is.
Let's put God first and keep going.
When they started lying about the mRNA vaccines, added to the decades of crap science with regular vaccinations, every research scientist began with the facepalm.
Add that to the lies about the origin of the Virus....it was never going to have a chance of going well.
It was obvious to the dumbest and most gullible people that the government was lying.
And that was the whole problem. There were too many nefarious things going on in the medical research world. Why and how medical research grants ($$$) are awarded being chief among the concerns. Why research is not repeated another. Truly independent monitoring of research studies is also needed. There is some but that industry has a vested interest in "not seeing" things happening.
Then there's the mathematical models that demonstrate significance....some very fuzzy math is the norm.
The USA is the leader in biomedical research....we spend more and do more than any nation on the planet. The excuses and lies are too much coming out of the USDA and the NIH. The WHO? It's a joke and complete waste of money.
Lots of money is needed for medical research. It's a VERY VERY expensive thing to perform with very few results. But with so much money there's a LOT of room for fraud.