There have been plenty of articles written and attempts by journalist to shed light on what was happening at the lab. There was a great article by Vanity Fair (seems odd for the mag) but it was really well done and was attempting to point fingers at lab leak.
It has been documented that the lab may have had US Army involvement. IMO, the deflection of "When, where and how" from politicians, MSM, and China, has been to curb liability and lawsuits.
Just think about what has happened in East Palestine Ohio with the derailment. What happened there is not much different than the virus getting out (intentionally or not) of that lab. The train company is now facing many civil lawsuits. Why hasn't one country attempted to try and put some type of civil pressure placing responsibility on someone or someone(s) for this entire pandemic?
From the moment Covid was known, it was a wet market bat eating asian that started the mess. Anything else, you were crazy. Then it was how do we stop it and shut down the entire global economy.
Meanwhile, the exact reason of how Covid got out, was swept under the rug except for a few journalists and politicians who wanted to know. But the MSM, and the majority of politicians, kept "Gain of Function Research" out headlines.
Responsibility of how this pandemic happened sits somewhere. But most people can only fight about Trump this, or Biden that and all the woulda coulda shoulds done this or that.
In the meantime, we should be chasing the root cause and if China and that fucking lab is responsible, then every country should have some type of reparations made IMO.