A) Yes. B) It was done on purpose.

 Did dismissal of safe, outpatient drugs cause needless COVID deaths?

Some governments and independent practitioners considered that standard a recipe for inaction that meant likely death for untold numbers of victims. These medical dissenters instead treated COVID-19 as physicians have long responded to newly emerging infectious diseases: by administering designer cocktails of cheap, safe, and readily available agents—in this case including hydroxychloroquine, antibiotics, aspirin, and vitamins—that had proved effective in treating similar illnesses or showed promise due to mechanisms of action.

RealClearInvestigations spoke or corresponded with 12 such advocates for early outpatient treatment globally—from California, Texas and Honduras to France, Israel, and India. These physicians used their clinical experience to make educated guesses about what combinations of drugs might work. Few used the same cocktail, but all insisted the treatments proved most effective when administered as early as possible.

If there are drugs that can safely treat COVID, then the vaccines don't get their Emergency Use Authorization and all those connected bureaucratic parasites in the government don't get rich.  IF there's safe and effective treatments, there's no massive power grab by the Marxists.  If there's safe and effective treatments there's no wave of hysteria.  If there's safe and effective treatments, there's no Great Reset.

So yes, the dismissal, ridicule and banishment of safe and effective drugs DID cause massive amounts of needless COVID deaths, and it was done on purpose by the government.