He may weasel out of it, but the fact stands: They killed millions of people with their weapon.
In “The Terminator” a man arrives from the future describing how weapons designed by men eventually kill most of humanity; in the sequel an attempt is made to stop the research that eventually creates those weapons. We just got a taste of what our future can look like; these people need to be jailed.
My take is that a new crew of NIH scientists will eventually say that the current crop of scientists were wrong about C19 but had no malice in their proclamations, etc..