I suspect the answer here is politics. Eearly into the pandemic, the lab-leak theory was being conveyed mostly by conservative voices. This time article dives

I suspect the answer here is politics. Eearly into the pandemic, the lab-leak theory was being conveyed mostly by conservative voices. This time article dives into this idea: https://time.com/6051414/donald-trump-wuhan-laboratory-leak/ https://time.com/6051414/donald-trump-wuhan-laboratory-leak/