More agenda-driven journalism from Newsweek. It's a shame. They have actually printed some good stuff recently, including an article by John Lott.
There is much more detail and objectivity in this excellent long article by Nicholas Wade:
https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/
Wade does not cut Fauci any slack.
Tchad:
Daszak is on video bragging about creating coronaviruses:
https://banned.video/watch?id=609af3cbb493572075b0c04a
From the article you posted :
Virologists like Daszak had much at stake in the assigning of blame for the pandemic. For 20 years, mostly beneath the public’s attention, they had been playing a dangerous game. In their laboratories they routinely created viruses more dangerous than those that exist in nature. They argued that they could do so safely, and that by getting ahead of nature they could predict and prevent natural “spillovers,” the cross-over of viruses from an animal host to people. If SARS2 had indeed escaped from such a laboratory experiment, a savage blowback could be expected, and the storm of public indignation would affect virologists everywhere, not just in China. “It would shatter the scientific edifice top to bottom,” an MIT Technology Review editor, Antonio Regalado, said in March 2020.