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At the beginning of 2020, when the epidemic had just begun to spread, there was a possibility that Republican lawmakers in the United States mentioned the possibility of "laboratory leaks" and called on China to disclose more information. At that time, the mainstream American media and some scientists dismissed it, and the New York Times and The Washington Post also denounced it as a "conspiracy theory."