Up until and just before lockdowns started the US was funding a lab in Wuhan, the WIV, which specializes in bat coronaviruses and has had a long history of failure to meet safety standards. We only stopped funding them in July 2020, meaning US money funded the very virus that killed ~0.0875% of the world population.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-halts-funding-access-wuhan-...
I guess this is a causation directionality error in your thinking? We were there because nasty viruses spread near there.