Actually, I've known this since soon after the pandemic started. Fauci's funding began at a lab here in the US in South Carolina. The research was deemed either dangerous or illegal so the project was moved or supplanted to the Wuhan facility. Where it continued to receive funding.
More importantly, a huge "dry-run" was done in October of 2019 with Bill Gates in prominent position. It was called Event 201, and it was a simulation for a global pandemic of a corona virus that would halt the global economy. The main focus was how all of the participating corporations would adjust their operations to deal with it. The difference: the virus originated in Venezuela rather than China.