Transcript segment

Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.56 · baric_ti:utt:00438

Date: 2026-04-10 09:00 (day precision)
Type: transcript segment · interview
recipient: Ralph S. Baric, Harry Kazenoff, David T. Lambeth III, William Henderson, Clark Ervin, Jake Greenberg
speaker: Christina Salazar
Topics: Proximal Origin paper

So can we go back to early January. Let's go back to February, February 1st. Were you on the Proximal Origins call?

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2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

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

There seemed to be the upper administration didn't know where the documents were.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

Okay. Have they tried to find them?
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

How would I know? I would hope they would.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar

So can we go back to early January. Let's go back to February, February 1st. Were you on the Proximal Origins call?
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

You mean the call that NIH had on the origins?
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

The one that the authors of Proximal Origins were on the initial call, February 1st.
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

I was on a call around February 1st.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

Not February 3rd.