Yup they pretty much led with bat soup and outright dismissed the lab theory from the get..Reminds me a little bit of when Covid was released on the world and immediately the idea of a lab leak was discounted.
I'm over here thinking that it's WAY too early for them to be able to discount a lab leak as the source of Covid as there wouldn't have been sufficient time to conduct a thorough investigation.
Couple years later it's quietly announced it likely was a lab leak.