Almost all of the information supporting a lab-leak has been available for nearly a year. There isn't "newly surfaced evidence", it's people finally starting to take previously surfaced evidence seriously.
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There is also the chance that these lab workers weren't actually ill with COVID-19, but the H1N1 flu. But there is still no way to tell which one.
So the evidence is still not there, and this is a poor exercise of journalism.