How are the two related?
I'm willing to admit when I don't know an answer to something, but from what I can tell, the Covid-19 genome indicates that it is a modified virus - an extremely infectious bat coronavirus that had four HIV inserts added to it, to make it spread easily among humans.
In other words, if it is true that the HIV inserts were added to the virus genome, it would lend strong evidence to the possibility that the virus was a manmade bio-weapon. From there, the only question would be whether or not it was released intentionally, or escaped from the lab by accident.
I love how everyone somehow knew from the beginning that it was a natural virus.

Everyone was such an expert about a once-in-a-century pandemic. In my case, from the beginning, I said that I wouldn't be able to fully understand the virus [to the best of my personal ability, that is] until I have at least two years of data.
It's remarkable how so many people know so much about a virus that's currently barely over a year old.