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If he would've raised it, I would've remembered it then, because he would've put it in context.
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And he would've told you, right.
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Yeah. I think you have to think about where the focus of the research community was. My focuses, at the time, were to rapidly develop mouse models so that we could test mRNA-LNP-based vaccines against SARS-2, to work with Gilead to get their drug forward into clinical trials, to get molnupiravir, a second drug that was FDA approved for use in humans, into clinical trials. DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com
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But, you know, part of the conversation --
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Ralph S. Baric
Yeah, hindsight is always 20/20 in this case. So you can look at a document and say why can't I remember.
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No. I mean, I think part of the conversation, though, for a long time, was, I mean, the debate over whether it was a natural original, a lab leak, you know, accidental or not. I mean, this was a conversation that was happening in the public. There were multiple papers authored. We had Proximal Origins. People were shamed and called conspiracy theorists. I mean, is that not true?
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That's true.
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I mean, my understanding is you received threats. You know, like it's not like no one was talking about this. And, you know, even if you may not have remembered it, how many people were on that grant? Amy Sims, so she never said, "Oh, remember that grant that we were on?"
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Amy Sims left the lab right before the pandemic started.