President Trump listened to his VP and brought Fauci in. Thank Pence.
Pence definitely brought Birx in. Not so sure about Fauci. But Pence has been as exposed as just horrible through all this.
Still, the buck stops with Trump, who is the one with the power to change things. Or so we can hope. There is a reasonable case to be made via circumstantial evidence that he is being handled (by Kushner) and kept in line for the major stuff.