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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.40 · baric_ti:utt:00271

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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
It was mailed.

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  1. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    Huh?
  2. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    That's not sent electronically?
  3. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    No, no. That's actually a piece of DNA on a filter paper.
  4. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    On a filter. So is that just mailed?
  5. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric
    It was mailed.
  6. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Okay. It doesn't have to be kept at a certain temperature. It's just regular mail.
  7. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    No. I mean, by the time she sent it to us we'd already synthesized the genes and had them and started DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com to make viruses by that time, so we didn't ever actually use the plasma.
  8. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    And so do you have to report this kind of stuff to NIH if they're funding portions of a grant, or the whole grant? Because we're aware of --
  9. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    This is before or after? Certainly the NIH knows because a paper, a progress report will have the existence of the viruses that are there. And then it's published, and NIH has access to the paper, as well. So they get this information, yes.

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