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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.18 · baric_ti:utt:00089

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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
We had a paper that was coming out in Nature Communications on January 10th, and so I called the journal and asked them if it was okay if I could share it with the Chinese and the other people on the call, so we did.

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  1. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    No, not the Georgia guy, no. The reason they called me was that they had worked as sort of an international team to set up clinical trials for respiratory viruses, mostly focused on flu, and China -- flu or small molecule inhibitors. Sorry, I forgot the second part. And so they were very interested in initially talking about using remdisivir in their clinical trials, which they eventually did in January.
  2. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Which you were also involved in.
  3. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    No. My role was to call up Gilead collaborators and say, "The Chinese want to talk to you," and that's what I did.
  4. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Did any of your research lead to --
  5. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric
    We had a paper that was coming out in Nature Communications on January 10th, and so I called the journal and asked them if it was okay if I could share it with the Chinese and the other people on the call, so we did.
  6. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    And so I have a little bit of information that might refresh your recollection. You just tell me if this sounds familiar. So Peter Daszak was also on the call. Does that refresh your --
  7. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    Not with the Chinese.
  8. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Not with the Chinese. With Eric Stemmy.
  9. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    Oh, he may have been. Yes, he may have DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com been.

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