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At the beginning of 2020, when the epidemic just started to spread, some Republican congressmen in the United States mentioned the possibility of "laboratory leakage" 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 dismissed it as a "conspiracy theory".