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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), pp.79-80 · baric_ti:utt:00706

Page text: p.79, p.80 · original PDF

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
Natural origin / zoonotic spilloverWuhan Institute of Virology collaboration
Would your opinion change if you knew that they WIV was conducting work on pangolin viruses around 2019, 2018? DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com

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  1. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Okay.
  2. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    It was later then found that the BANAL strains on the Cambodian-Thailand-Chinese border --
  3. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    This is --
  4. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    BANAL-52 and BANAL-1-something or another, also had receptor binding domains that were virtually identical to SARS-2. So there's two bad viruses and pangolin virus within the clade, within that branch of SARS-2 that had identical receptor binding domains, which means that it's not engineered.
  5. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar
    Would your opinion change if you knew that they WIV was conducting work on pangolin viruses around 2019, 2018? DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com
  6. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    It would depend on what strain they had. It would depend on what strain they had.
  7. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Is that conversation that you've had with anyone?
  8. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    Let's take that into the afternoon.
  9. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Would that change your opinion?

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