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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.12 · baric_ti:utt:00041

Date: 2026-04-10 09:00 (day precision)
Type: transcript segment · interview
recipient: Christina Salazar, Harry Kazenoff, David T. Lambeth III, William Henderson, Clark Ervin, Jake Greenberg
speaker: Ralph S. Baric

I knew you were going to ask that question. At some point the neuron will fire.

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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.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

And you said that was University of Virginia?
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

University of Virginia.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

And who was that?
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric

I knew you were going to ask that question. At some point the neuron will fire.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

So you said that was January 4th?
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

Yeah, yeah. It's in the testimony, I think, in the House. Yeah.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

And had you already been working with DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com Gilead?
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

Oh, we started working with Gilead in 2016 on a work on identifying broad-spectrum, small molecule inhibitors against the coronavirus family.