Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted) — page 134

DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com DR. BARIC: But I think it was important to say in this meeting that be careful what you read in an abstract, or even what you hear from the scientific community, because they're not always right. There is uncertainty in a lot of things, and this particular issue has uncertainty around it. MS. SALAZAR: Fair enough. How well did you know Dr. Fauci? In his deposition with the House he claimed to barely have known you. DR. BARIC: I met him, or interacted with him, basically, four times. The first time was the NIH was putting together a meeting on MERS coronavirus to help provide or articulate a strategy for NIH to move forward to help protect the public against a future pandemic. As one of the organizers of that meeting I met him at the meeting, where he gave the introductory talk for five minutes. Then he left the meeting in the first presentation. So 10 minutes, maybe, before the meeting I talked with him. Then, as part of the Red Dawn group, which you must be aware of, there was the Princess, Princess Diamond I think was the name of the cruise ship, where the U.S. government was trying to bring back the passengers from that cruise ship. And on the Red Dawn call Dr. Fauci was there, Redfield was there, and we had a long discussion about how to safely bring them back by air travel.