Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted) — page 40

DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com DR. BARIC: The spike genes of SHC014 and WIV1. MS. SALAZAR: Okay. And she sent it to you via -- DR. BARIC: It was electronic. MS. SALAZAR: Via email? DR. BARIC: Yeah, I think so, yeah. MS. SALAZAR: Okay. And is it that she just attaches it as an attachment. DR. BARIC: Just a series of nucleotides, 4,000 nucleotides in length. MS. SALAZAR: Was that the only sequence she sent you or is that a frequent thing? DR. BARIC: Later on she sent some plasma DNA with the spike gene on them. It says that in the paper, in the acknowledgements section. MS. SALAZAR: And that's non-electronic? DR. BARIC: Huh? MS. SALAZAR: That's not sent electronically? DR. BARIC: No, no. That's actually a piece of DNA on a filter paper. MS. SALAZAR: On a filter. So is that just mailed? DR. BARIC: It was mailed. MS. SALAZAR: Okay. It doesn't have to be kept at a certain temperature. It's just regular mail. DR. BARIC: No. I mean, by the time she sent it to us we'd already synthesized the genes and had them and started