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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.21 · baric_ti:utt:00112

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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
I just want to make sure I understand. You received information from the Chinese about the SARS16 COVID-2 outbreak.

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  1. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Okay. I just want to make sure I understand. DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com
  2. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    Let me step back. So historically they published a paper showing that this drug combination might be effective against emerging coronavirus infections, using SARS as their model. We did a head-to-head comparison of remdesivir versus this drug, and had submitted it to Nature Communications for publication. And that was in 2019, and the paper was going to be published on January 10, 2020. On the 7th or so, or on the first call, they wanted me to share that paper with them so that they could evaluate what they were going to do for treating their COVID-19 patients.
  3. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    At NIH.
  4. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    No. China. We didn't have any cases on January 7th, 2020, in the U.S.
  5. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar
    I just want to make sure I understand. You received information from the Chinese about the SARS16 COVID-2 outbreak.
  6. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    I told you that. I think it was around the 4th, that told me it was a coronavirus related to SARS, that was 78 percent identical.
  7. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Okay.
  8. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    That means basically it has 6,000 nucleotides. So if you think about a tree, SARS coronavirus is on one branch of that tree, and SARS-2 is on a totally different branch of that tree.
  9. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Okay. And so your conversations with DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com Peter Daszak during that time, when did you start working with Peter Daszak? You had a relationship with him.

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