All the agencies dealing with this have shown to be pretty clueless, from local, state, federal governments, and their various alphabet soup agencies, and let's not for get the W.H.O.
The virus was like giving and algebra test to a 6th grader. No one knew the answers. When thy had some information, other authority came along and said the opposite was true.
Sometimes, it was the same governing body that changed their story.
Also, after they admitted the fudged the climate change data, why wouldn't we be skeptical?