Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted) — page 36

DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com MS. SALAZAR: Chimeras. I figured it out. "Clearly he is in other kinds of meetings than we are invited to. I joked about his link to WIV but he wasn't very amused. He said that Shi's paper was not approved by the Chinese government and that she may be arrested for it. That's not a good look for anyone. So we just go ahead and keep our head down and get this virus working." So does this reflect what the conversation was? DR. BARIC: It's a Slack message that people write. It's not to me. Yeah. Certainly the first part, for sure. Ask specific parts of the question. MS. SALAZAR: So why would -- DR. BARIC: Sorry. I can't remember. MS. SALAZAR: -- Dr. Shi be arrested, because she didn't have the paper approved by the Chinese government? DR. BARIC: Again, I don't know for the fact why he said that. However, I'm not 100 percent sure that she ever got approval from the Chinese government to send me the sequences. That would be my guess. That would be my guess. MS. SALAZAR: So is that something that they have to formally approve? DR. BARIC: I believe so, yes. And any other attempts to get things out of China. So, for example, a guy named Hongkui Deng made an ACE2 mouse model back in 2005, and I