In that case I am not sure what you are saying in regards to my original post. It seems we agree.
Well, I think it's been a bit of an oscillation, and where we have to assume that some of Trump's posture change very recently may have come from someone "yanking him up short" with a stern warning. That often backfires with Trump, but perhaps someone had the message optimally framed to alarm him without inducing his normal 'narcissistic injury' rage.
So I think we've seen initial suppression, followed by increasing pushback, and finally, (I am guessing) CDC folks esp. Fauci basically threatening to either walk or publicly and explicitly contradict the idiotic chief exec. I suspect that Fauci struggled with the dilemma represented by how loss of access and any position of influence might be worse than having his message severely diluted/washed away, but at some point you become aware that you have made a deal with the devil, and if you stay silent or complicit in the BS too long, you are part of the problem. So the dynamics of the CDC/WH interaction have likely been complex, and not easily captured by the simple statement that the CDC dropped the ball.