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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.41 · baric_ti:utt:00275

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

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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2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

It was mailed.
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.
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.
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 --
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric

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.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

But it's not something that you --
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

I don't believe there's a formalized process for DNA on a filter paper. If there was a pathogen, for example, then there are intricate processes involved.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

What about for a mouse model?
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

Intricate.

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