Actually, even stronger than this: while people are worrying about theoretical engineered pandemics, more than 1% of the population is already dying every year to disease and old age. Safety is important, but accelerating medicine is the best way to save human lives.
It is important to remember that while we are debating theoretical AI risks, real people with real diseases are really dying every day. Safety is important, but slowing down progress and blocking researchers from using the strongest models to find new medicines is not the way.