Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted) — page 55

DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com ever, basically what logs you had to report and immediately stop work? DR. BARIC: Say that again. MS. SALAZAR: Did NIH ever adopt your language that you had provided to them on stopped work and at what point you would have to? DR. BARIC: Oh, are you talking about parameters that we might use to determine whether we would pause the research in place -- MS. SALAZAR: Right. DR. BARIC: -- notify NIH, and then yes, have a discussion about what to do, including destruction of viruses. I don't know if they implemented that as a policy or not. They might well have, because one of my documents would have been one of the first ones that they reviewed. Against, that's a decision that NIH has to come up with, not me. MS. SALAZAR: And I think they did. But, you know, I think -- and that's a question that we have is, is it appropriate or not. It sounds like NIH didn't even keep documents of those interactions. DR. BARIC: I think that's probably a misstatement on your part. MS. SALAZAR: Okay. DR. BARIC: They may not be aware they had the