Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted) — page 70

DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com significant contributions to science. Then they do straw polls to down-select the most heavily supported individuals. Those are then taken to a larger committee and presented to the entire Academy from all the different sections. That group then ultimately makes the final list for voting, and then they do voting the beginning of April. Like the voting will probably end in the next few days, if it hasn't already ended for this next year's nominees that are being inducted. And then they're announced probably sometime within the next week or two, depending on the Academy. That's the process. MS. SALAZAR: And so your understanding is that was convened by NIH? DR. BARIC: No. You're confusing induction into the National Academy of Sciences with sponsored research that the National Academy does for Federal institutions. So the NIH wanted the National Academy to form a group that would review the COVID outbreak. That group will include National Academy members as well as individuals who are not National Academy member but knowledgeable experts in the field. MS. SALAZAR: I guess my question is, why was NIH convening this group? Because the same members, right, Dr. Fauci, Francis Collins were in other groups. DR. BARIC: I think, again, you need to talk to the