Having worked on NIH and CDC funded health project for most of my career, I can tell you for a fact that there is no one that works for those organizations who isn't in it for the health and well-being of the American people.
There is no huge financial payoff for those people that work to improve the health of the American people. Rarely are they recognized and most don't seek recognition. But a vastly uniformed public gets the "Googles" and thinks they know everything.
Frankly, that's one thing about this whole pandemic that has made me grit my teeth.