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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.21 · baric_ti:utt:00114

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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
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  1. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    At NIH.
  2. 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.
  3. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    I just want to make sure I understand. You received information from the Chinese about the SARS16 COVID-2 outbreak.
  4. 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.
  5. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar
    Okay.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    I got to meet him around 2004. I can't tell you exactly when. I mean, scientific meetings, you run into people all the time. But I would guess it would start around 2014 we ran into a meeting, I think at the NEIDL together, and had some discussions. And I visited his place afterwards. We had common interests, but we didn't effectively start working together until later in 2014, on some of the work on the 2015 paper, that was published in Nature Medicine.
  9. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Okay. Why don't we skip to that.

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