Also, 'there had been a "premature push"' is very passive language. Who pushed? I wish the AP published on the web so that they were able to hyperlink to original source material or their transcript.
Edit: I guess the old consensus must be buried.
The one thing that has consensus from early on is that the virus is not man made. However, that did get muddied and confused with the possibility of a lab leak. In other words, lab origin is not the same thing as lab leak.
It is, however, wrong and harmful to suggest it was a lab leak without evidence. And that is what a lot of social media people were saying at the time. It's also not wrong to hypothesize that it could have been leaked from a lab. But most of the stuff I saw being censored or fact checked was not presented as a "possibility".
AP Does publish on the web...
NPR: who-chief-wuhan-lab-covid-19-origin-premature-tedros
AP: joe-biden-world-news-health-science-coronavirus-pandemic
AP is just stuffing keywords in there.