When the Covid-19 pandemic first gained global attention in January 2020, BBC News spent three times as much attention as all other channels on its origins in Wuhan, while Fox News largely took up the mantle in April. Since the George Floyd protests largely displaced pandemic coverage in late May 2020, Wuhan has all but disappeared from television news, though it has started to reappear as external fact finding efforts begin to search for the origins of how the virus crossed into humans.