“This is, from a public health viewpoint, a disaster… The more children we will vaccinate, the more we will, of course, expedite this immune escape and get to this kind of variant that will not only be highly infectious, fully resistant to the vaccines, [but] also highly virulent… If you would ask me to set up an experiment where I can induce this resistance and generate a highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 virus with a high level of virulence that is completely resistant against the COVID-19 vaccines, the experiment that we are doing is exactly what I would do… It’s criminal; it’s not going to have a happy end.”