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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.87 · baric_ti:utt:00772

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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. Did you ever receive any of these viruses from --

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  1. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Are you familiar with those two individuals?
  2. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    With Fang? Absolutely.
  3. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    No, with the postdoc and his student.
  4. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    Chuming, yes. Qibin, if he emailed me, I'm familiar with his name.
  5. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar
    Okay. Did you ever receive any of these viruses from --
  6. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    No. No one in the United States had MERS 422. We synthetically resurrected it in my lab.
  7. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    And so who had it outside of the United States?
  8. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    I don't believe anyone had it. I would have to review the Chinese papers again that were published. The Chinese published a couple of papers on different MERS strains. I don't think they used 422, and I don't think they made molecular clones for either of them.
  9. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Okay. And did you ever receive any biological samples by hand from any of Fang Li or Fang Li's postdocs?

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