I’m not sure he has ‘underlying motives’.
Fauci is a scientist; and they sometimes have their own professional blind spots.
Unfortunately, we’ve made a sort of ‘god’ of Science (and our narrow, rigid conceptions of it) over the past century or so. It’s hard for people who worship at that altar to...alter.
“Fauci is a scientist;”
His training is as a scientist. Now he is a politician.
He is not only a scientist but a long time federal bureaucrat who heads an agency that supports long term clinical tests. So he has a bureau to defend. He should be fired. He hs endangered lives. He is too old.