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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.80 · baric_ti:utt:00707

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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 would depend on what strain they had. It would depend on what strain they had.

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  1. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    It was later then found that the BANAL strains on the Cambodian-Thailand-Chinese border --
  2. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    This is --
  3. 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.
  4. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Would your opinion change if you knew that they WIV was conducting work on pangolin viruses around 2019, 2018? DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com
  5. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric
    It would depend on what strain they had. It would depend on what strain they had.
  6. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Is that conversation that you've had with anyone?
  7. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    Let's take that into the afternoon.
  8. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Would that change your opinion?
  9. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    It would depend on what data was present. Certainly the pangolin strains were identified, and I think the first paper that was published was in September of 2019, by non-WIV researchers.

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