I don't really believe the narrative that the virus jumped from the lab, but to play devils advocate: The proper allegation is that there was a program based on

I don't really believe the narrative that the virus jumped from the lab, but to play devils advocate: The proper allegation is that there was a program based on funding to perform gain of function research which included taking bat coronaviruses and infecting groups of intermediate animals with them to see if certain mutations were likely or problematic.