Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted) — page 139

DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com of those patients were in the acute phase, and the Chinese are too good not to have sequenced those viruses. MS. SALAZAR: And it went down before, right? I can't remember. DR. BARIC: 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. MS. SALAZAR: Probably. DR. BARIC: So they may have sequences of those viruses, and then you might say, eureka, those are the SARS-2 strains, but they didn't transmit. They were super virulent, and they did not transmit. So they might have things in there that they feel are very sensitive, and their government may feel that are very sensitive. So yeah, I would've liked to have seen it, certainly. But again, I think anybody thinking logically from a national