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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.12 · baric_ti:utt:00036

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Date
2026-04-10 09:00 (day precision)
Type
transcript segment · interview
recipient
Ralph S. Baric, Harry Kazenoff, David T. Lambeth III, William Henderson, Clark Ervin, Jake Greenberg
speaker
Christina Salazar
Okay. Great. Well, let's start early outbreak. So when was the first you heard of the outbreak?

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  1. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Thank you. I wanted to start, obviously, you gave testimony in the House.
  2. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    I did.
  3. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    And I wanted to just start -- I know this may be a loaded question, but is there anything from that testimony that you would like to, off the bat, clarify or generally -- and we may talk about that today, but I just wanted to see if there was any portions of that testimony that you wanted to clarify or provide any DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com statements on.
  4. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    Nothing comes to mind, but if you have questions on that testimony I'll be glad to give you my current thinking.
  5. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar
    Okay. Great. Well, let's start early outbreak. So when was the first you heard of the outbreak?
  6. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    A notice went up on ProMed about a new respiratory infection in Wuhan on December 31st, and I immediately got phone calls from several collaborators who were letting me know about it. I didn't find out it was a coronavirus until about the 4th of January, when a colleague of mine at the University of Virginia asked me to participate in a phone call with some Chinese researchers to try to get them in contact with Gilead to set up trials with remdisivir.
  7. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    And you said that was University of Virginia?
  8. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    University of Virginia.
  9. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    And who was that?

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