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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.17 · baric_ti:utt:00079

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 believe you, but I just don't recall the exact date.

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2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

CisVax?
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

I think. If you don't know. DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

I've read a lot of proposals. You're going to have to show me the proposal and then I can tell you.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

If not, I was just trying to tie it back to something. Okay. So I have some notes, and I think your call was around the 7th.
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric

I believe you, but I just don't recall the exact date.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

Do you recall what you all discussed?
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

Not in any detail. I can probably give you an estimate of what we talked about, was that there was a new coronavirus that was being identified, and it would be logical for the NIH to contact me and talk to me about what it was. Although the 7th would've been a little early. I guess it was around the 7th or 8th that I actually got the sequence of the virus. Before that I'd been verbally told by the Chinese that it was 78 percent identical to the original SARS coronavirus 2003 strain.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

And who told you that?
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

Ben Cao was on the line. It was Fred Hayden. I knew I'd eventually remember Fred's name from University of Virginia. That's going to happen a lot, by the way. And the other person on the call was Peter Horby from England.