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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.18 · baric_ti:utt:00092

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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
Not with the Chinese. With Eric Stemmy.

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  1. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Did any of your research lead to --
  2. 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.
  3. 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 --
  4. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    Not with the Chinese.
  5. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar
    Not with the Chinese. With Eric Stemmy.
  6. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    Oh, he may have been. Yes, he may have DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com been.
  7. 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.
  8. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    Yeah.
  9. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Okay. And that you were willing to share what you knew with leadership at NIH, but that you couldn't share it. You had to have some kind of assurance that it wouldn't be shared more broadly.

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