A major part of the problem was that pretty much everyone knew it was extremely probable that it came from the Wuhan Lab where we knew they were performing Gain of Function research under conditions similar to that of a dentist lab. The back channel emails from Faucci's group show that A) they thought it probable that it came from bioweapon research and B) displayed characteristics of an engineered virus and C) they were not allowed to consider the lab as the source.

Goes back to the foundational truth - he who controls the assumptions controls the analysis