This happens when a country is preparing to go to war. It's what happened with nuclear research around the start of the Manhattan project.
It tells Usa based org got grant to research Coronaviruses. And outsourced research to China Wuhan.
Yes, because coronaviruses are one of the largest and most common family of viruses, that cause everything from the common cold to SARS and MERS. Researching coronaviruses was important long before COVID-19.
Educating yourself is a good antidote to irrational conspiracy theories.