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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.86 · baric_ti:utt:00759

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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
Okay. I'm going to show you another email here that you're on. It's dated October 24, 2018. It's from Fang Li to you. [Exhibit No. 2 shown.]

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  1. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Did you do any work on that?
  2. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    We worked with Linda Saif's group to develop a molecular clone for porcine epidemic diarrhea virus.
  3. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    And did WIV, that you know of, have that, or were they working on that?
  4. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    I would be surprised if they weren't working on it. I don't know if they published on it or not. Linda Saif has swine models, gnotobiotic swine models that she can study viral pathogenesis and vaccine DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com performance. Really her area of expertise. I was glad. I like her a lot. We helped her students develop a molecular clone and then we didn't work on it anymore.
  5. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar
    Okay. I'm going to show you another email here that you're on. It's dated October 24, 2018. It's from Fang Li to you. [Exhibit No. 2 shown.]
  6. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    And it says, "It was nice chatting with you in Wuhan. My student" -- and I don't know how to pronounce this individuals name --
  7. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    2018. Okay. What's this about?
  8. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    -- "has emailed you the information about PEDV. My postdoc, C-H-U-M-I-N-G, will email you the information about the MERS-like CoV-422 soon." Do you recall that email?
  9. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    Not really, but Fang Li does structural biology and develops biochemical assays, to look at spike receptor interactions. So I would guess that both of those are around that topic.

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