Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted) — page 12

DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com statements on. DR. BARIC: Nothing comes to mind, but if you have questions on that testimony I'll be glad to give you my current thinking. MS. SALAZAR: Okay. Great. Well, let's start early outbreak. So when was the first you heard of the outbreak? DR. BARIC: A notice went up on ProMed about a new respiratory infection in Wuhan on December 31st, and I immediately got phone calls from several collaborators who were letting me know about it. I didn't find out it was a coronavirus until about the 4th of January, when a colleague of mine at the University of Virginia asked me to participate in a phone call with some Chinese researchers to try to get them in contact with Gilead to set up trials with remdisivir. MS. SALAZAR: And you said that was University of Virginia? DR. BARIC: University of Virginia. MS. SALAZAR: And who was that? DR. BARIC: I knew you were going to ask that question. At some point the neuron will fire. MS. SALAZAR: So you said that was January 4th? DR. BARIC: Yeah, yeah. It's in the testimony, I think, in the House. Yeah. MS. SALAZAR: And had you already been working with