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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.82 · baric_ti:utt:00734

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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
Yeah. Let me be 100 percent clear. No, although I like the name.

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  1. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    No. Jon Cohen actually asked me whether I had written it, and I also told him, no, I did not write it. DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com
  2. 2026-04-10 09:00 William Henderson open
    That was the question.
  3. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    What I can't remember is whether he showed me the email or not.
  4. 2026-04-10 09:00 William Henderson open
    Okay. That was the question you'd answered, is that you said you told him no. You didn't tell us no. So I just wanted to get that on the record. Thank you.
  5. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric
    Yeah. Let me be 100 percent clear. No, although I like the name.
  6. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    So you said that you -- can we get the notes from that call, because I seem to recall that some of the folks on that call were 50/50. It was not clear that they were leaning more towards --
  7. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    There was an hour discussion, and certainly in part of that discussion is going to be discussion about whether or not it could be engineered. And the answer is, from a technical point of view, yes, it could be engineered. There are some key things that you have to have. The first and most important is a full20 length molecular clone of that virus.
  8. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Both ends?
  9. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    What?

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