Cure has been developed and has been inoculating the population for over two months.
National Security developed a threat assessment and found that the number of individuals who could sway the population against a vaccine or a cure via injection or consumable were too high for success in beating the pandemic within the border. In essence, too many people would have died due to personal belief systems and as a result, the country would not have survived the level of loss of life.
Aerosolized and spread throughout major cities.
Incorporation into water lines and on objects that have a high rate of touching; currency, receipt paper, fuel pump stations, etc.
End result expected to keep loss of life at levels that are unsatisfactory, however improved by orders of magnitude and will guarantee success at countrywide survivability.
Violation of personal sovereignty in this regard was not chosen lightly, as I am sure anons will understand that some decisions must be taken for the greater good of the many at the risk of immense consequences of the populace knowing.