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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.118 · baric_ti:utt:01019

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

RML, again, I'd have to look at the MTA agreement that would tell me what was in it. We would have to pull it from the MTA. I can tell you that during the pandemic we did hundreds of MTA agreements with research institutions in the United States. If you ask me if I can remember this one directly, I can't, because if I had a person in my lab who I would say, "Take care of this MTA agreement," and they would do it.

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2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

I recall sending them WIV1 and SHSC014 for studies in bats. It's possible that we sent them the pangolin coronavirus. I'd have to check the MTA agreements.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

I guess, is that something that's published, the pangolin beta coronavirus? What is that?
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

I had mentioned it previously. It's called pangolin coronavirus GD strain, and it was published in Nature Microbiology.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

And do you know what RML was doing with that?
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric

RML, again, I'd have to look at the MTA agreement that would tell me what was in it. We would have to pull it from the MTA. I can tell you that during the pandemic we did hundreds of MTA agreements with research institutions in the United States. If you ask me if I can remember this one directly, I can't, because if I had a person in my lab who I would say, "Take care of this MTA agreement," and they would do it.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

Is it typical that the transmittal fee would be zero? I just don't know.
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

It depends on how much money I would have.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

Okay. Like what does that range sometimes look like?
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

Whatever the shipping cost are. DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com

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