Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted) — page 121

DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com Excellence in Biodefense. It wasn't my grant. It was his grant. And he collected bat samples from bat hibernacula in the Maryland/West Virginia border and did deep sequencing on them. So he published that, and I believe he put all the sequences available to the public. But I can't 100 percent say for certain that he did that, since it was about 15 years ago or so. So there may be sequences there. We have sequenced fecal samples from norovirus- infected patients that we may not have published the sequences of those noroviruses yet. As part of our grant with Eva Harris, and the Philippines study, where Sanofi Pasteur vaccinated kids in the Philippines and a bunch of them got infected, my lab sequenced all the viruses that were present in those patients, and that has not yet been published. So the short answer is yes, I do. If you're asking the broader question, do I have unpublished sequences for sarbecoviruses -- unpublished. Unpublished means that -- MS. SALAZAR: Not publicly available. DR. BARIC: Yeah, right. So the answer is no. I have sequences for sarbecoviruses that we've recovered that we have not published yet, but we got those sequences from the published literature. MS. SALAZAR: Okay. And have you ever been asked not to publish a sequence?