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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.55 · baric_ti:utt:00429

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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
-- notify NIH, and then yes, have a discussion about what to do, including destruction of viruses. I don't know if they implemented that as a policy or not. They might well have, because one of my documents would have been one of the first ones that they reviewed. Against, that's a decision that NIH has to come up with, not me.

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  1. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    Say that again.
  2. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Did NIH ever adopt your language that you had provided to them on stopped work and at what point you would have to?
  3. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    Oh, are you talking about parameters that we might use to determine whether we would pause the research in place --
  4. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Right.
  5. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric
    -- notify NIH, and then yes, have a discussion about what to do, including destruction of viruses. I don't know if they implemented that as a policy or not. They might well have, because one of my documents would have been one of the first ones that they reviewed. Against, that's a decision that NIH has to come up with, not me.
  6. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    And I think they did. But, you know, I think -- and that's a question that we have is, is it appropriate or not. It sounds like NIH didn't even keep documents of those interactions.
  7. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    I think that's probably a misstatement on your part.
  8. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Okay.
  9. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    They may not be aware they had the DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com documents at the time. But if I gave the impression that they didn't have the documents, that's probably not correct.

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