>> Maybe Fauci and others in government are getting a kickback from Pharm. Companies?
First, stop listening to both Faucis and anti-Faucis, read at least popular science articles like statnews or nature, or better original research (in google scholar for example), even if you won’t understand the whole thing. There are pre-prints to avoid potential bias and censorship.
2nd, a lesson we can all learn from this on moris ayn: alway behave so that people will not suspect you. A lot of government personnel goes to work for same businesses they used to supervise. Is this corruption? sometimes, yes, sometimes, no, but better to avoid.