It's questionable whether this is true. But let's suppose it is.

The only silver lining to this pandemic – and the only accomplishments of any society not in the few which successfully crushed the virus – has been the pharmaceutical triumph. (1/5) https://twitter.com/jameshamblin/status/1356392817178910721

Several highly-effective vaccines have been developed at breakneck speed, with even more on their way.

This triumph – which will (hopefully) finally end this pandemic – was in large part the product of the profit motive.

OP is proposing we significantly curb these profits.(2/5)

If OP gets his way and this pandemic shows that vaccine-developers will not get the profits they expected to this time round, we may have to wave goodbye to having these pharmaceutical triumphs in future pandemics and other healthcare emergencies. (3/5)

Decrying markets and the profit motive is so common because it is an easy way to feel and sound morally superior: "I condemn selfishness, so I am committed to selflessness."

It is lazy, too. One doesn't need to actually understand how the world works or its tradeoffs. (4/5)

"Selfishness: bad. The common good: good" substitutes from having to do any real analysis or possess any real knowledge.

These vaccines should show that markets and the profit motive can be very good when harnessed appropriately, and celebrated where they are. (5/5)

Addendum: Doesn't it strike people as odd to advocate for "more government intervention, less markets" at precisely the moment when most governments have botched this all so horribly whilst pharmaceutical companies, tech companies, and supermarkets have done so well?