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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.22 · baric_ti:utt:00119

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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
I mean, from my perspective, and just looking at it from a scientific perspective, he made major contributions into identifying emerging infectious disease hotspots around the world. He worked extensively with China on SARS coronavirus in 2003. He's sort of a microbial ecologist, very different field than I do. But we would have mutual interests to talk about emerging viruses.

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Okay. Why don't we skip to that.
  5. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric
    I mean, from my perspective, and just looking at it from a scientific perspective, he made major contributions into identifying emerging infectious disease hotspots around the world. He worked extensively with China on SARS coronavirus in 2003. He's sort of a microbial ecologist, very different field than I do. But we would have mutual interests to talk about emerging viruses.
  6. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    And did he have people on the ground over in Wuhan in early 2020?
  7. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    So I was not part of his RO1 grant that went from like 2014 to 2019. So on that grant, as you know, part of that money went to the Wuhan Institute of DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com Virology. So I guess you could say he had a collaborative group in China, and I would imagine that he had people moving back and forth between the two, the U.S. and China.
  8. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    To your knowledge, he didn't an EcoHealth employee or anything like that?
  9. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    You'd have to ask him those questions. I wouldn't know.

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