Hum no, looks more like another manufactured "crisis".
Fauci did not say he believed... he said when pressed, LOGICALLY, yes lives could have been saved.
He says in the presser, “...obviously you could have...” but the collective points for ALL his interviews and pressers was that they responded early as could be and that if they didn’t have erroneous information (from maybe WHO or China), yes they could have responded earlier although he respectfully said now is not the time to point fingers.
There are daily pressers, in which Fauci has been consistent in his statements.
Though I would guess a lot of people do not watch these pressers (they tend to be around a hour long, sometimes more), during which Trump talks a lot.
People hating Trump and having their mind already made will not watch the pressers, just like they will not watch his rallies or his conferences.
Thus making it easier to make sound bites and turning them the way you want.