Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted) — page 50

DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com her statement? DR. BARIC: I don't know what was in this grant. My guess is that USAID paid for surveillance work that picked up samples that ultimately were used with, you know, in terms of sequence discovery and that sort of thing that we used, and they wanted to acknowledge the fact that the discovery portion of the grant, that that contributed to the discovery portion of the grant. But again, this is not my grant, and it's not in the RO1 that they had with Daszak and Shi were not my grant, so I don't know the intricacies of what was in each and why they felt it was appropriate. MS. SALAZAR: In the paper there is a section that makes it clear that the work was done prior to the pause. Is that right? DR. BARIC: Prior to what? MS. SALAZAR: Prior to the pause. DR. BARIC: Yes, that's correct. MS. SALAZAR: Why was that statement included? Was it because there was a concern that it could be perceived that there was gain-of-function work occurring after the pause? DR. BARIC: I don't recall the exact reason why we put that statement in. It may have been because the journal wanted it written in that it was started prior to the pause. It's technically accurate and honest, and I think that's the most important thing for the reason why the