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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.87 · baric_ti:utt:00773

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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
No. No one in the United States had MERS 422. We synthetically resurrected it in my lab.

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  1. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    With Fang? Absolutely.
  2. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    No, with the postdoc and his student.
  3. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    Chuming, yes. Qibin, if he emailed me, I'm familiar with his name.
  4. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Okay. Did you ever receive any of these viruses from --
  5. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric
    No. No one in the United States had MERS 422. We synthetically resurrected it in my lab.
  6. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    And so who had it outside of the United States?
  7. 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.
  8. 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?
  9. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    Fang Li sent me reagents in the mail. We had collaborative grants together, so certainly we collaborated and exchanged samples on occasion, yeah.

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