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1. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
   It's a Slack message that people write. It's not to me. Yeah. Certainly the first part, for sure. Ask specific parts of the question.
2. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
   So why would --
3. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
   Sorry. I can't remember.
4. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
   -- Dr. Shi be arrested, because she didn't have the paper approved by the Chinese government?
5. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric
   Again, I don't know for the fact why he said that. However, I'm not 100 percent sure that she ever got approval from the Chinese government to send me the sequences. That would be my guess. That would be my guess.
6. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
   So is that something that they have to formally approve?
7. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
   I believe so, yes. And any other attempts to get things out of China. So, for example, a guy named Hongkui Deng made an ACE2 mouse model back in 2005, and I DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com met him. He was at Peking University, and said he'd be glad to share his mice with us. And so we started to do the paperwork, but the Chinese government never allowed it to go through, so the whole thing crashed. So from what I hear from other researchers, it's not an uncommon problem.
8. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
   But that paper had been published.
9. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
   That's correct.

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