A single line often inverts meaning once you see what it
answers, so neighbouring messages are always shown.
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So again, I'm kind of surprised that they didn't know I was there.
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Did you introduce yourself?
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I think so, yes. I think so, yeah. I think we went around and introduced everybody in the room. My problem is I couldn't find the link that told me exactly how I got on that call, and I think it may have been a personal, like a phone call, you need to be on this call, here's the link, or something like that. But I can't find a record of it, and I've looked incredibly hard.
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Is there any chance that someone dialed DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com you in, patched you in?
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Ralph S. Baric
No. No.
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So there was no suggestion that you should remain silent or not?
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No. Again, I was silent because I had sort of felt that maybe I caused the whole meeting to occur because I had talked about it earlier. And I wanted to hear what independent people thought. Otherwise, I could drive the whole direction of the meeting, and that was not right. At least that was my -- if it's flawed thinking, then I apologize. But I don't think it was flawed thinking.
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And back to the DARPA proposal, had you done any of the work that you were proposing to do under that proposal prior to the application?
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No. We've never dropped a furin cleavage site into a coronavirus like that.