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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.18 · baric_ti:utt:00091

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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
Not with the Chinese.

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  1. 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.
  2. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Did any of your research lead to --
  3. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    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.
  4. 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 --
  5. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric
    Not with the Chinese.
  6. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Not with the Chinese. With Eric Stemmy.
  7. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    Oh, he may have been. Yes, he may have DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com been.
  8. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    And it sounds like, the notes that I have -- and again, if you don't recall this, just let me know -- it appears that you may have mentioned that you had some confidentiality issue with remdesivir, within Nature Communications.
  9. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    Yeah.

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