We actually aren't significantly closer to knowing the origin of the coronavirus than we were a few days ago. But any indication that it leaked from a lab is an opportunity that will be used to hyperbolically cast officials and the media as wrong.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/27/china-covid-wuhan-lab-energy-department/?itid=ap_philipbump
The weighted politics of the debate over covid-19 origins

We're not much closer to knowing how the pandemic began, but there's no shortage of people willing to declare victory.

The Washington Post

@pbump

It’s interesting how the people who scream the loudest about “lab leak” are also the people most inclined to say that Covid is just the flu. This logic makes no sense. Why are they so frothing mad at the Chinese if the bioweapon was supposedly useless?