“escaped from a lab”
Well, that’s one idea. But I have another ...
Your idea is the correct one. It was released, not leaked.
Escaped or deliberately released?
My thought exactly. But you beat me to it...aka, “This was no boating accident.”
My opinion has always been that the “escaped from a lab” was planned and executed for the purpose of causing world wide disruption to commerce and extensive changes to election laws in the United States.