That’s my recollection.
Decided to see if Fauci was vaccinated - he supposedly did Moderna - and came across this statement:
“I’ll be getting the Moderna vaccine. We just got a shipment in yesterday. I feel very good about it, because in a large part, that vaccine was developed by my group at the NIH. So, you know, it’s sort of a double positive. One, in general, I’m doing it because I want to symbolize to people the importance that everyone gets vaccinated who can get vaccinated, but also it’s a good feeling of accomplishment because this originated in laboratories in my institute.”
So yes, he sees this as a feather in his cap - create a pandemic and then praise himself for a solution. Just too bad about the people who died for his career glory.