Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted) — page 82

DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com MR. HENDERSON: That was the question. DR. BARIC: What I can't remember is whether he showed me the email or not. MR. HENDERSON: Okay. That was the question you'd answered, is that you said you told him no. You didn't tell us no. So I just wanted to get that on the record. Thank you. DR. BARIC: Yeah. Let me be 100 percent clear. No, although I like the name. MS. SALAZAR: So you said that you -- can we get the notes from that call, because I seem to recall that some of the folks on that call were 50/50. It was not clear that they were leaning more towards -- DR. BARIC: There was an hour discussion, and certainly in part of that discussion is going to be discussion about whether or not it could be engineered. And the answer is, from a technical point of view, yes, it could be engineered. There are some key things that you have to have. The first and most important is a full20 length molecular clone of that virus. MS. SALAZAR: Both ends? DR. BARIC: What? MS. SALAZAR: Is it -- DR. BARIC: You have to have a full-length molecular clone of SARS coronavirus. If you have that and it doesn't