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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.138 · baric_ti:utt:01146

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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
Topics
Wuhan Institute of Virology collaboration
And one last question before we have to break. Do you find it odd that the WIV database went down when it did?

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  1. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Okay.
  2. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    I mean, they had the molecular clone.
  3. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    So they couldn't have.
  4. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    Yeah. They had a molecular clone. They've dropped different spike genes in it. So it's the question of basically, I don't know, I'd have to look at the S1/S2 junction. But it would be three or four amino acids that they'd have to drop in. They certainly would have that technology.
  5. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar
    And one last question before we have to break. Do you find it odd that the WIV database went down when it did?
  6. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    I mean, if they really wanted to conclusively demonstrate that the virus did not come out of the laboratory, they could have made that available. The problem is for example, is they may have things in there that they don't want to share, and the immediate thing that comes to mind is the Mojiang mine in Yunnan, where six miners were infected with virus. Two reports from Chinese researchers say it's a SARS coronavirus-like virus. Some DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com of those patients were in the acute phase, and the Chinese are too good not to have sequenced those viruses.
  7. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    And it went down before, right? I can't remember.
  8. 2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open
    They may not have published them. But the important thing for the U.S. government to realize is they are as good as us in recombinant DNA technology. It is no longer the U.S. is massively in the lead. So their deep sequencing capability is second to none. Their capacity to sequence at least some of those viruses from those patients should have been done. Now, they claimed that it's a fungal infection. Fungal infections can occur after acute infection. The virus has cleared and then you get a fungal infection. Okay. So they didn't lie. They just didn't tell the whole truth.
  9. 2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open
    Probably.

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