Health Friday 1.23.2026 Open Thread: The Baric Files, Part Six: Ralph Baric, PhD, The Master Designer of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus; Recent Efforts and News Items

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Health Friday is a series devoted to information about Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. As today’s offering speaks to the disaster of COVID-19, Yours Truly dedicates it to all persons, of whatever age or location, who have suffered injuries, illnesses, or disabilities; or, who have passed away, from an infection of the COVID-19 BIOWEAPON virus itself, or from having been injected with any of the COVID-19 BIOWEAPON “vaccines.”

There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of our late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: Yours Truly has checked today’s offering for AI-generated content. To the best of her knowledge and belief, there is none, except perhaps for AI-generated content within linked URLs. If readers wish to post AI-generated content in today’s discussion thread, they must cite their source. Thank you.

Special Note regarding today’s offering: In no way is the following, or The Baric Files series in general in Health Friday posts, to be construed as a “character assassination”, or as an “indictment”, or as any other type of attack or smear on Ralph S. Baric, PhD, of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, or of his lab at the university. The linked scientific papers, images therefrom, and other information about Dr. Baric (such as his Curriculum Vitae [1]) are all available on the internet. The ideas and conclusion of today’s offering are by Yours Truly. There is a plethora of items related to Dr. Baric; Yours Truly will focus on some of them in each part of The Baric Files.

Yours Truly wishes to thank our host, Wolf Moon; Gail Combs; and others on the board here, who have brought information to light regarding the COVID-19 disaster (the BIOWEAPON virus itself; the BIOWEAPON “vaccines”; and the fallout from both), including information regarding Dr. Baric. I hope The Baric Files series has added to the knowledge base. In the course of producing The Baric Files, Yours Truly has read multiple scientific papers — blog articles — documents — grants information and applications — and, other pieces of information related to Dr. Ralph Baric, PhD. Even with all of this, however, it represents only a small part of the vast amount of information related to Dr. Baric and his research journey.

What Yours Truly has read has done several things for me: One, to understand more of how deep and wide was the scope of funding and research into the lab-creation of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) BIOWEAPON virus; Two, to understand more of how deep and wide was the scope of involvement of the United States military in this effort; Three, to understand more of the sheer magnitude of the damage potential that the lab-created SARS-CoV-2 BIOWEAPON virus had built into it; Four, to understand more of how this virus, which is the basis of ALL of the COVID-19 BIOWEAPON “vaccines”, had its damage potential “transferred” to these injectables; Five, to understand more of why this virus, and the “vaccines”, have forever changed humankind in multiple negative ways; and, Six, to understand more of why ALL of the COVID-19 BIOWEAPON “vaccines” MUST be immediately removed from the market and from use in the United States.

One more important thing to be understood, in Yours Truly’s opinion, by anyone who reads today’s offering, and indeed, The Baric Files series, is how one scientist — Dr. Ralph Baric, PhD — devoted over thirty years of focused, patient, methodical research into lab-creating the “template” for the modern scourge of humankind — the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In a way, it is like learning about how an artist — or, an architect — took years to create their masterpiece. Except, that in the case of Dr. Baric’s lab-creation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus “template”, it was a very different type of “masterpiece.” And, for this “masterpiece”, the creator / inventor was granted a US Patent.

The previous posts of The Baric Files are here: Part One: https://www.theqtree.com/2025/12/05/health-friday-open-thread-the-baric-files-part-one/; Part Two: https://www.theqtree.com/2025/12/12/health-friday-12-12-2025-open-thread-the-baric-files-part-two-of-mice-rabbits-and-ai-23946/; Part Three: https://www.theqtree.com/2026/01/02/health-friday-1-2-2026-open-thread-the-baric-files-part-three-patents-dr-anthony-fauci/; Part Four: https://www.theqtree.com/2026/01/09/health-friday-1-9-2026-open-thread-the-baric-files-part-four-ecohealth-alliance-wuhan-institute-of-virology-dr-zheng-li-shi-the-template-patent/; Part Five: https://www.theqtree.com/2026/01/16/health-friday-1-16-2026-open-thread-the-baric-files-part-five-united-states-department-of-defense-now-department-of-war-18-u-s-c-2339-18-u-s-c-1001-and-15-u-s-c-1-3/.

Today’s offering is Part Six of six.

Recent NIH Grants to Dr. Baric:

Dr. Ralph Baric has continued to experiment with various types of viruses; among them, coronaviruses and flaviviruses (an example of a flavivirus is the Yellow Fever virus.) Below are screenshots from NIH RePorter regarding a grant to Dr. Baric given in the year 2022 [2]: the Title of the grant; the Abstract; the Funding Information source (NIAID); and, the Other Information about the grant:

Note the Budget Start Date of 16 May 2022 for the grant. Dr. Anthony Fauci retired from the NIAID (and NIH) at the end of December 2022.

Yours Truly will discuss the READDI-AC initiative, spearheaded by Dr. Baric, further down in today’s offering.

Another example, from the fiscal year 2024, NIH grants to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, per Report.nih.gov/ [3]. Please see the screenshot below:

An example of NIH grants to Dr. Baric, this one related to experiments with Dengue Fever, with Dr. Baric being associated with the University of California Berkeley [4]. Please see the screenshots below regarding this grant: the Title; the Abstract; the Funding Institution (NIAID); the Funding grantee institution; and, the funding amounts list:

CIA involvement with Dr. Baric:

The following is from the article by Dr. Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, in The Focal Points [5]:

There is a video interview with Dr. McCullough on this topic embedded in the article.

The following screenshots are from the Zero Hedge article by Tyler Durden [6] on this subject (linked in The Focal Points article [5]):

Dr. Baric and his communications: possible “protecting” of him and his communications:

Regarding the possible “protection” of Dr. Baric:

An article by Matt Hartman in The Assembly NC from March 2025 [7] has the following regarding an FOIA request from U.S. Right to Know for emails and other communications by Dr. Baric and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Please see the screenshot from this article, below:

Another article on the requests for emails and other communications involving Dr. Baric and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, this on by Theresa Opeka in The Carolina Journal, June 2025 [8]. North Carolina Speaker of the state House, Destin Hall, wanted records from 2 July 2020 to 12 August 2024. Please see the screenshot from this article, below:

However, transparency is not, apparently, the priority with the judges of North Carolina. In January 2026, the North Carolina Appeals Court rejected the efforts to allow the public to access the records that the University of North Carolina has regarding Dr. Baric’s interactions with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. This is covered in the article in The Carolina Journal on 7 January 2026. Please see the screenshot from this article, below:

At issue here is the fact that UNC withheld over 5,000 documents related to Dr. Baric and the Wuhan Institute of Virology in response to the original request of US Right to Know. The university did release thousands of copies of other documents in response to the request. USRTK then sued the university to get the withheld documents released. The Appeals Court decision to reject the lawsuit hinges on an interpretation of what is considered to be “proprietary information“, stating that the documents still held by UNC are under “an exemption” to the law in North Carolina. Please see the screenshots, below, from the article on this situation in The Vaccine Reaction, by Carolyn Hendler, JD, 20 January 2026 [10]:

In other words, it appears that the North Carolina Appeals Court did another version of the infamous “what the definition of is, is” of another certain court case of some years ago.

How does this decision (and the court’s interpretation of “proprietary nature” language), square with the fact that Dr. Ralph Baric had already Patented, in March 2015, the SARS-CoV-2 virus “template” that he created in his lab at UNC? This is the Patent Number US9884895B2 that was presented by Yours Truly in The Baric Files, Part Three (see above in today’s offering for the URL link to the post and to the Patent.) And, that the SARS-CoV-2 virus “template” that Dr. Baric lab-created at UNC, and Patented, was based, at least in part, on samples of the SHC014 coronavirus that Dr. Zheng-li Shi (of the Wuhan Institute of Virology) had given to Dr. Baric (at his request) back in 2013? (Again, please refer to the URL link for The Baric Files, Part Three, above in today’s offering.)

One other aspect to all of the above: Dr. Robert Redfield, MD, former Director of the CDC, has stated that the SARS-CoV-2 disaster came from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Please see the screenshot of the statement by Dr. Redfield from the article by Theresa Opeka, from November 2024, regarding this issue [11]:

READDI-AC:

In 2022, Dr. Ralph Baric established READDI-AC, also known as the AViDD CENTER (READDI-AC), Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Development Initiative – AViDD Center, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (https://readdi.org/.) This antiviral drug development center was established with a $65 Million dollar grant from NIAID in May 2022. The Funding Information source (NIAID) screenshot from above in today’s offering is repeated, below:

From one of the READDI-AC websites (https://readdi.org/about-readdi/who-we-are):

A screenshot of part of the article from READDI-AC, “Why READDI-AC?” (https://sph.unc.edu/sph/news/why-readdi-inc/), 13 November 2023, is below. Notice that READDI-AC has already “evolved” into a “public-private corporation” of sorts.

A screenshot of the Funders / Collaborators list of READDI-AC (https://readdi.org/about-readdi/partners/) is below:

Dr. Ralph Baric’s wife, Antoinette “Toni” Baric, is the READDI-AC Development Manager. She is, apparently, associated with the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy (https://eshelmaninnovation.org/people/; https:/www.linkedin.com/toni-baric-83551628/.)

**** Regarding the collaboration between READDI-AC and the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC —see above in the READDI-AC Funders / Collaborators screenshot): SGC was the organization that commissioned the 2006 paper by Dr. Baric on Synthetic Genomics — the paper which contained the “outline” and “processes ideas” for lab-creating synthetic genomes for viruses: https://www.jcvi.org/sites/default/files/assets/projects/synthetic-genomics-options-for-governance/Baric-Synthetic-Viral-Genomics.pdf.

The SGC 2007 conference, which featured the ideas in the 2006 commissioned paper by Dr. Baric, is here: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/3914/Synthetic%20Genomics%20Options%20for%20Governance.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y. A screenshot of the page in this published conference paper, indicating that Dr. Baric’s 2006 Synthetic Genomics paper was commissioned by the organization, is below (Page 53 of the conference paper):

In Yours Truly’s opinion, it appears that the efforts to “protect” Dr. Baric’s entire communications file from access to the public may be the result of what can be called “take care of me and I’ll take care you”-ism: the University of North Carolina wants its reputation (and its faculty) protected; SGC wants its interests in being the “founding entity” of the lab-created synthetic viral genomics concept protected; NIH / NIAID wants their agencies protected (along with their employees); and, the North Carolina legislature wants its financial stake in READDI-AC protected.

Finally, there is the list of 293 questions for Dr. Ralph Baric paper that was published on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397608384_293_QUESTIONS_FOR_DRRALPH_BARIC_2025, also available here: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.22713.63840, Billy Bostickson, Steven D. Massey, et al., 14 November 2025. Please see the screenshots of the Brief Background section of this paper, below:

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Yours Truly leaves the reader with the following “core items” related to Dr. Ralph Baric and his research journey, as presented in The Baric Files:

The beginnings of his research journey, the study of the mosquito-borne Sindbis virus;

The continuation of his research journey, the study of coronaviruses in mice, rabbits, and pigs;

The continuation of his research journey, the inventions and methods to lab-create animal coronaviruses to study their effects;

The continuation of his research journey, the Synthetic Genomics paper of 2006;

The continuation of his research journey, his collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology;

The continuation of his research journey, his March 2015 Patent of the SARS-CoV-2 virus “template”: Patent Number US9884985B2.

The continuation of his research journey, his November 2015 paper on circulation bat coronaviruses with Dr. Zheng-li Shi, which used the SHC014 bat coronavirus samples that she provided for him;

The continuation of his research journey, the collaboration in the development of the antiviral remdesivir with Gilead Sciences;

The continuation of his research journey, his ongoing efforts since the SARS-CoV-2 virus disaster in experimenting with coronaviruses;

The continuation of his research journey, his co-creation of the EIDD-2801 antiviral treatment with Emory University;

The continuation of his research journey, his establishment of READDI-AC (AViDD) at UNC to lab-create antiviral treatments, in collaboration with (among others) SGC and with the World Health Organization (WHO.)

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THE COVID-19 BIOWEAPON “VACCINES” — ALL OF THEM — MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE MARKET AND FROM ALL USE IN THE UNITED STATES. NOW. PERIOD.

ALL GAIN-OF-FUNCTION RESEARCH MUST BE STOPPED IN THE UNITED STATES. NOW. PERIOD.

IVERMECTIN, HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE, ZINC, VITAMIN C, AND VITAMIN D MUST BE APPROVED FOR BY THE FDA PREVENTION OF COVID-19 VIRUS INFECTION, AND FOR TREATMENT OF COVID-19 VIRUS INFECTION; AND MADE AVAILABLE FOR USE BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC, BY HOSPITALS AND OTHER HEALTHCARE FACILITIES, AND BY HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS. NOW. PERIOD.

THERE. MUST. BE. ACCOUNTABILITY.

THERE. MUST. BE. JUSTICE.

THERE. MUST. BE. TRUTH.

Peace, Good Energy, Respect: PAVACA

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Numbered References:

[1]: “Curriculum Vitae Ralph Baric.” https://sph.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/112/2016/09/CV_Ralph_Baric.pdf. 2016.

[2]: “PI Project Leader – BARIC, RALPH S.” https://reporter.nih.gov/search/sH-_pluTTU25anWQ9nRZcQ/projects.

[3]: “NIH grants to Ralph Baric, 2024.” https://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm?fy=2024&orgid=578206&om=n.

[4]: “CORE B:Viral Assays Core.” https://reporter.nih.gov/search/9rbNLfGBjU–3je0VeNZtQ/project-details/11111753.ProjectNumber2P01AI106695-11.

[5[: “SARS-CoV-2 Basic Architect Ralph Baric collaborated with CIA.” Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/sars-cov-2-architect-ralph-baric. 28 November 2025.

[6]: “CIA Met With Ralph Baric In 2015 To Discuss “Coronavirus Evolution And Possible Human Adaptation”: Emails.” Tyler Durden. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cia-met-ralph-baric-2015-discuss-coronavirus-evolution-and-possible-human-adaptation. 12 November 2025.

[7]: “A Chapel Hill Lab Faces New Threats Five Years After COVID-19.” Matt Hartman. https://theassemblync.com/news/education/higher-education/unc-chapel-hill-.ab-baric-five-years-covid-19/. 27 March 2025.

[8]: “Gov Ops requests records about UNC-Chapel Hill coronavirus researcher Baric.” Theresa Opeka. https://www.carolinajournal.com/gov-ops-requests-records-about-unc-chapel-hill-coronavirus-researcher-baric/. 13 June 2025.

[9]: “Judges reject public records case linked to UNC and COVID-19’s origins.” CJ Staff. https://www.carolinajournal.com/judges-reject-public-records-case-linked-to-unc-and-covid-19s-origins/. 7 January 2026.

[10]: “NC Court Upholds Decision to Deny Access to COVID-19 Origins.” Carolyn Hendler, JD. https://thevaccinereaction.org/2026/01/nc-court-upholds-decision-to-deny-access-to-covid-19-origins/. 20 January 2026.

[11]: “Former CDC director claims that COVID-19 emanated from UNC-Chapel Hill.” Theresa Opeka. https://www.carolinajournal.com/former-cdc-director-claims-that-covid-19-emanated-from-unc-chapel-hill/. 18 November 2024.

Health Friday 1.16.2026 Open Thread: The Baric Files, Part Five: United States Department of Defense (now Department of War); 18 U.S.C. 2339; 18 U.S.C. 1001; and,15 U.S.C. 1-3

The header image for today’s offering of a vintage cover page of the United States Code (U.S.C.) is courtesy of Highline College Library and Google Images.

Health Friday is series devoted to information about Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. As today’s offering speaks of the disaster of COVID-19 (the bioweapon virus itself, and the bioweapon “vaccines”), Yours Truly dedicates it to all persons, of whatever age or location, who have suffered (or still suffer) from injuries, illnesses, or disabilities induced from either an infection of the COVID-19 virus itself, or induced from “vaccination” by COVID-19 “vaccines”; or, who have passed away from the negative effects of an infection by the COVID-19 virus itself, or from the negative effects of the COVID-19 “vaccines” they had in their body.

There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of our late, good Wheatie;, and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linke here. Note: Yours Truly has checked today’s offering for AI-generated content. To the best of her knowledge and belief, there is none, except for AI-generated content within linked URLs. If readers wish to post AI-generated content to today’s discussion thread, they must cite their source. Thank you.

Special Note regarding today’s offering: In no way is the following, or The Baric Files series in general in Health Friday posts, to be construed as a “character assassination”, or as an “indictment”, or as any other type of attack or smear on Ralph S. Baric, PhD, of the UNC GIllings School of Global Public Health of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, or of his lab at the university. The linked scientific papers, images therefrom, and other information about Dr. Baric (such as his Curriculum Vitae [1]) are all available on the internet. The ideas and conclusions of today’s offering are by Yours Truly. There is a plethora of items related to Dr. Baric; Yours Truly will focus on some of them in each part of The Baric Files.

Part One through Part Four of The Baric Files are linked here: https://www.theqtree.com/2025/12/05/health-friday-12-5-2025-open-thread-the-baric-files-part-one/; https://theqtree.com/2025/12/12/health-friday-12-12-2025-open-thread-the-baric-files-part-two-of-mice-rabbits-and-ai-23946/; https://www.theqtree.com/2026/01/02/health-friday-1-2-2026-open-thread-the-baric-files-part-three-patents-dr-anthony-fauci/; https://www.theqtree.com/2026/01/09/health-friday-1-9-2026-open-thread-the-baric-files-part-four-ecohealth-alliance-wuhan-institute-of-virology-dr-zheng-li-shi-the-template-patent/.

Thus far, in the research journey of Dr. Ralph Baric, PhD, of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, it has been seen that Dr. Baric progressed from the study of a certain virus (the Sindbid virus) carried by a certain mosquito — to the study of coronaviruses in other animals (mice, rabbits, pigs) — to the study of the SARS-CoV virus — to the inventions of, and applications of, methods to lab-create chimeric coronaviruses — to the invention of the “template virus” for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, for which Dr. Baric was granted the Patent in 2016.

However, there are other aspects in the research journey of Dr. Baric, one of which is: his involvement with the United States Defense Department.

Today’s offering is Part Five of six.

United States Department of Defense:

It appears that Dr. Baric has been involved with the United States Defense Department since at least 2018, if not before. The DEFUSE Proposal document that was presented to the Defense Department by Dr. Peter Daszak, then-CEO of EcoHealth Alliance, was written, in part, by Dr. Baric. Yours Truly covered this proposal in Part Four of The Baric Files (see above URL); and, is indebted to Jon Fleetwood for the linked article in today’s offering. Please see screenshots from his article [2], below:

From the DEFUSE Proposal document (top); and, from emails by Dr. Daszak regarding the proposal:

Again, from the DEFUSE Proposal document, below; this, about the furin cleavage sites in the potential SARS-CoV sequence that would be developed by Dr. Baric at his lab:

As Yours Truly wrote in Part Four of The Baric Files, the Defense Department did not pursue the DEFUSE Proposal. However, other entities did fund Gain-of-Function research that would result in the lab-creation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. These other entities include NIH / NIAID. These other entities also include DTRA (Defense Threat Reduction Agency), a division within the Defense Department. Two examples are: first, grant HDTRA11710064, which helped to fund a September 2020 paper co-authored by Dr. Baric [3]. Please see the screenshots from this paper, below: first, the Funding statement; then, the Conclusion:

A second example is HDTRA1-1C-C-0072, the grant which funded the development (invention) of the antiviral drug, EIDD-2801 (now known as molnupiravir [LAGEVRIO], a treatment for SARS-CoV-2 [COVID-19] infection.) [4]. Emory University and Dr. Ralph Baric collaborated on this work. Molnupiravir is theoretically supposed to “mimic” natural Uridine, thus supposedly assisting in fighting a COVID-19 infection. The problem is that molnupiravir is a dangerous drug intervention; one that must be administered only under strict conditions and only for a limited number of days. Please see the screenshots from the Emory University press release regarding EIDD-2801, below:

The FDA Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers for molnupiravir (LAGEVRIO) [5] lists the following required instructions for administration of the drug:

**** Yours Truly will not comment on, but simply mention, the irony that Dr. Ralph Baric, by September 2020, had already invented and Patented the SARS-CoV-2 virus (Patent Number US9884895B2, presented in Part Four of The Baric Files); that the Patent describes “methods for treatment” for an infection of this virus; and, that it appears that Emory University either did not know about said Patent, or ignored it.

**** Yours Truly will also comment on, but simply mention, the irony that molnupiravir (LAGEVRIO) attempts to “mimic” the Uridine in the body of a person “vaccinated” with a modRNA COVID-19 BIOWEAPON “vaccine” (such as, BNT162b2 / COMIRNATY by Pfizer-BioNTech, which contains the lab-created compound N1-Methylpseudouridine, a compound that DESTROYS the natural Uridine RNA in the “vaccinated” person’s body.)

Fort Detrick involvement with Dr. Baric (including USAMRIID):

Fort Detrick, located at Frederick, Maryland, is a United States Army military base and biological laboratory; it is also the location of the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) [6].

An article in the People’s Daily (Communist China) in September 2021 drew attention to Dr. Baric’s involvement with Fort Detrick [7]. Granted, the CCP was doing / is likely still doing, all it can to deflect attention to the activities at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the lab-creation of the COVID-19 virus; however, it confirms that Dr. Baric was involved, not only with the WIV, but also with the United States Defense Department, in the lab-creation of the virus. Please see the screenshot, below, from the People’s Daily article:

The People’s Daily article mentions two papers. The first, from 2006, [8], regards the Cynomolgus Macaque as a “model” for SARS infection. Please see the screenshot from this paper, below:

Yours Truly notes that, except for two co-authors associated with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and for the co-author Dr. Ralph Baric, every other co-author of this 2006 paper is associated with the United States military — Fort Detrick; Walter Reed Army Hospital; and, other Defense Department facilities. In addition, it appears that Gain-of-Function techniques were used in the work.

The other paper mentioned in the People’s Daily article, from 2003 [9], regards the use of reverse genetics to create a full-length cDNA SARS code (in other words, Gain-of-Function research.) Please see the Abstract from this paper, below:

Yours Truly will note the following that are also listed in the October 2003 paper: first, the top of the Affliations list in the sidebar linked from the Authors Info & Affiliations hyperlink in the paper; and, second, the Affiliations entry regarding Dr. Ralph Baric from that list, which states that he is affiliated with USAMRIID:

Another item linking Dr. Baric to USAMRIID: the talk that he gave at the USAMRIID annual research conference in 2023 [10]. Please see the screenshot from the article on this event, below:

(By the way, another speaker at this event in 2023 was Dr. Deborah Birx, herself a 29-year Army veteran.)

18 U.S.C. 2339; 18 U.S.C. 1001; and, 15 U.S.C. 1-3:

Yours Truly now turns to the work of Dr. David E. Martin, PhD. Dr. Martin is founder and CEO of M-CAM, Inc., a company that specializes in intellectual property risk management. A screenshot of a portion of his biography, from a conference in 2006 [11], is below:

In 2021, Dr. Martin wrote and published The Fauci/COVID-19 Dossier [12]. The following screenshots are from this Dossier.

Page 2, Background, regarding Patents granted to Dr. Baric and to UNC:

Page 8, Dr. Baric and Dr. Shi: Related to 18 U.S.C. 2339 — Funding and Conspiring to Commit Acts of Terror:

Page 12, DARPA and NIH funding of biomedical research: related to 18 U.S.C. 1001 –Lying to Congress:

The following three portions of the Dossier are related to 15 U.S.C. 1-3 — Conspiring to Criminal Commercial Activity:

Page 16, NIH and biodefense Gain-of-Function funding for Dr. Baric:

Page 17, more on Dr. Baric:

Page 18: Dr. Baric: DARPA involvement; biodefense awards to Dr. Baric / UNC (funneled via NIAID):

The Biodefense Grants to Dr. Baric / UNC are “officially” from the “Southeast Regional Centers of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases”, headquartered at UNC Chapel Hill. However, this entity (one of several such Regional Centers located in various areas of the United States) is funded by NIAID. NIAID, in turn, is in a “cooperative program” with USAMRIID (https://www.niaid.nih.gov/sites/default/files/category_a_progress_report.pdf, “NIAID Biodefense Research Agenda for CDC Category A Agents Progress Report”, August 2003, Page 6.)

Summary: In Part Five of The Baric Files, it can be seen that the research journey of Dr. Ralph Baric, PhD, has progressed from the study of a certain mosquito that carries a certain virus (the Sindbid virus) — to the study of coronaviruses in other animals (mice and rabbits) — to the study of a certain coronavirus that occurs in pigs (the TGEV coronavirus) — to the study and application of methods to lab-create coronaviruses and the injection of such chimeric viruses into lab animals to study the effects of said injections — to the granting of Patents to Dr. Baric for this work — to the study of the SARS-line of coronaviruses — to the invention of the “template virus” for SARS-CoV-2 by Dr. Baric and the granting of the Patent to him for this invention — to Dr. Baric’s involvement with various divisions of the United States Defense Department in the lab-creation of coronaviruses. Along the way in his research journey, Dr. Baric was involved with the Dr. Zheng-li Shi of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Along the way in his research journey, some of the funding for Dr. Baric’s work was provided by the United States Defense Department (and some of which funding was “relayed” through NIAID.)

Questions that arise: Is Dr. Ralph Baric still affiliated with USAMRIID? Who exactly at NIAID accepted the funding from the United States Defense Department? Who exactly at NIAID signed the approval to send these funds to Dr. Baric? How much, if any, of the work performed by Dr. Baric with funding by the United States Defense Department was shared with Pfizer-BioNTech, or with Moderna, or with both companies?

To be continued in Part Six.

THE COVID-19 BIOWEAPON “VACCINES” — ALL OF THEM — MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE MARKET AND FROM ALL USE IN THE UNITED STATES. NOW. PERIOD.

THERE. MUST. BE. ACCOUNTABILITY.

THERE. MUST. BE. JUSTICE.

THERE. MUST. BE. TRUTH.

Peace, Good Energy, Respect: PAVACA

(Intellectual Property Disclaimer and Notice: With the exception of linked scientific papers and other items available on the Internet in today’s offering, the ideas and conclusions in today’s offering are by PAVACA. Proper credit must be given to PAVACA if the ideas and conclusions of today’s offering are used by other blog writers, by podcasters, in social media, or in print media.)

References:

[1]: “Curriculum Vitae Ralph Baric.” https://sph.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/112/2016/09/CV_Ralph_Baric.pdf. 2016.

[2]: “SARS-CoV-2 Furin Cleavage Site Sits at Exact Amino Acid Residue Location Designated By 2018 DEFUSE Document.” Jon Fleetwood. https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/sars-cov-2-furin-cleavage-site-sits?utm_source=publication-search. 8 December 2025.

[3]: “Possibility for reverse zoonotic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to free-ranging wildlife: A case study of bats.” Ralph S.. Baric, et al. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008758. 3 September 2020.

[4]: “Emory, collaborators testing antiviral drug as potential treatment for coronaviruses.” https://news.emory.edu/stories/2020/02/coronavirus_eidd/index.html. February 2020.

[5]: “molnupiravir (LAGEVRIO) Package Insert.” https://www.fda.gov/media/155054/download.

[6]: “Fort Detrick.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Detrick.

[7]: “What are behind Ralph Baric’s deep ties with Fort Detrick?” Zhou Fujing. https://en.people.cn/n3/2021/0907/9000-9892964.html. 7 September 2021.

[8]: “Cynomolgus Macaque as an Animal Model for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.” Ralph Baric, et al. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030149. 18 April 2006.

[9]: “Reverse genetics in full-length infectious cDNA of severe acute respiratory coronavirus.” Ralph Baric, Mark R. Denison, Lisa E. Hensley, et al. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1735582100. 20 October 2003.

[10]: “Birx, Baric Headline Annual Research Festival.” Ramin A. Khalili, USAMRDC Public Affairs Office. https://mrdc.health.mil/index.cfm/media/articles/2021/birx_bari_headline_annual_research_festival. “Last Modified Date: 23 May 2023.”

[11]: “WIPO Open Forum on the Draft Substantive Patent Law Treaty Speakers: David E. Martin, PhD.” https://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/2006/csp_of_ge_06/speakers/martin.html. 2006.

[12]: “The Fauci/COVID-19 Dossier.” David E. Martin, PhD. https://www.gospanews.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/The_Fauci_COVID-19_Dossier.pdf. August 2021.

Health Friday 12.12.2025 Open Thread: The Baric Files, Part Two: Of Mice, Rabbits, and AI 23946

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Health Friday is a series devoted to Big Pharma, vaccines, general health, and associated topics. As today’s offering speaks to the disaster of COVID-19, Yours Truly dedicates it to all persons, of whatever age or location, who have suffered injuries, illnesses, or disabilities; or, who have passed away from, the manifestations of the COVID-19 disaster: from an infection of the COVID-19 virus itself; or, from COVID-19 “vaccine”-induced or -aggravated injuries, illnesses, or disabilities due to the COVID-19 “vaccines” that they took; or, from complications induced by the shedding of either the COVID-19 virus itself, or by the COVID-19 “vaccines.”

There are Important Notifications by our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of out late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: Yours Truly has checked today’s offering for AI-generated content; to the best of her knowledge and belief, there is none, except perhaps for AI-generated images within linked URLs. If readers wish to post AI-generated content to today’s discussion thread, they must cite their source. Thank you.

Special Note regarding today’s offering: In no way is the following, or The Baric Files series in general in Health Friday posts, to be construed as a “character assassination”, or as an “indictment”, or as any other type of attack or smear on Ralph S. Baric, PhD, of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, or of his lab at the university. The linked scientific papers, images therefrom, and other information about Dr. Baric (such as, his Curriculum Vitae) are all available on the internet. The ideas and conclusions of today’s offering are by Yours Truly. There is a plethora of items related to Dr. Baric; Yours Truly will focus on some of them in each part of The Baric Files.

Today’s offering is Part Two of six. Please refer to Part One for previous information: https://www.theqtree.com/2025/12/05/health-friday-12-5-2025-open-thread-the-baric-files-part-one/.

Now, to today’s offering:The Baric Files, Part Two: Of Mice, Rabbits, Templates, and AI 23946 (also known as AI023946 as per NIH Reporter.)

In reading through the section VIII. PUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS: in the Curriculum Vitae for Ralph S. Baric, PhD, of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, it appears that Dr. Baric’s research efforts began to shift away from the Sindbis virus that he was investigating early on in his career, to murine (mice), rabbits, and coronaviruses in general: for example, published manuscripts starting with number 11. Please see the screenshot, below, of portions of Page 11 and Page 12 of his Curriculum Vitae [1]:

Yours Truly turns to published manuscript number 11, dated 1986. By now in the research journey of Dr. Baric, it appears that he was starting to experiment with combining pieces of viruses, a process called “recombination.” Published manuscript number 11 [2] is the result of such experiments with mouse coronaviruses. At the time that this paper was published, Dr. Baric was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California Los Angeles School of Medicine. This occurred before he was hired by the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Please see the screenshots from this paper, below; first, the general summary; and, second, a portion of the Discussion section:

Note the mentions of “mRNAs”, “coronavirus”, “transcription”, and “recombinant viruses.”

There are other published manuscripts (papers) by Dr. Baric that relate to experiments with mouse coronaviruses, such paper number 16, from 1988, which discusses the interaction between certain coronavirus sequences and “the nucleocapsid protein” [3].

By the year 1990, Dr. Baric’s research journey had led to studying heart issues in rabbits. The first result of this study was the 1990 paper, “Rabbit cardiomyopathy” [4]. Please see the screenshots of the Title page of this paper; the Introduction of this paper; and, a portion of the Discussion section, below:

There is one more screenshot from this 1990 paper, which Yours Truly considers to be a significant publication in the research journey of Dr. Baric: the Acknowledgements section:

Please take note of the mention of NIH grant AI 23946. This grant also funded, for example:

The 1992 paper by Dr. Baric and colleagues, “An experimental model for dilated cardiomyopathy after rabbit coronavirus infection” [5}. Please see the screenshots from this paper, below: the Title and general summary page; a portion of the Results section; the Figure 1.; and, the mention of funding by NIH grant AI 23946:

Yours Truly decided to investigate more regarding the NIH grant award AI 23946 to Dr. Baric. Two more (of the multiple papers) funded by this grant are: one, for example, from 2005: “Coronavirus Genome Structure and Replication” [6]. Please see the screenshots, below, from this paper: the Title and Authors page; the Future Directions section; and, the Acknowledgements:

And, NIH grant AI 23946 also funded this paper by Dr. Baric, from 2009 [7], “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus nsp9 Dimerization Is Essential for Efficient Viral Growth.” Please see the screenshots from this paper, below: the Title page; the Summary; the Acknowledgements; and, the specific paragraph regarding the mouse hepatitis virus protein A59 (MHV-A59), which Dr. Baric was experimenting with back in 1986 (the Published Manuscript Number 11 [2], screenshots from which are above in today’s offering):

Below is the specific paragraph regarding MHV-59 and the nsp9 connection:

Dimerization is the process whereby two molecules of the same, or similar, chemical composition, join together to create a “dimer.”

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Yours Truly is aware that all the above may appear as a “long tale to tell.” However, the point is to “trace” how Dr. Baric used one particular NIH grant, AI 23946 (among many other NIH grants, to be sure) to help fund his research journey. Part One and Part Two discuss his experimenting with a mosquito-borne virus — to experiments with mouse hepatitis and mouse coronavirus proteins — to experiments with rabbit coronavirus proteins — to experiments of the recombination of mouse hepatitis and mouse coronavirus proteins — to experiments with inducing myocarditis and Congestive Heart Failure in rabbits injected with rabbit coronaviruses: experiments that, with the exception of the ones on the Sindbis virus, were funded, at least in part, by AI 23946.

Along the way of what may be called “the NIH grant AI 23946 aspect” of Dr. Baric’s research journey, one observes that the focus of work becomes more concentrated; the research and laboratory methods become more complex and sophisticated; and, the work on combining coronaviruses and how to create “new versions” of them is emphasized (in other words, Gain-of-Function research.)

It appears, in Yours Truly’s opinion, that what began as Dr. Baric’s research into a certain virus (the Sindbis virus) carried by a certain mosquito (his published manuscripts 1980 – 1984 [1]), had, certainly by the year 2009, evolved into something very different: a detailed study of, and development of, lab-application processes for coronavirus gene code combination, genome manipulation, and inducement of disease conditions — including heart issues and severe respiratory infection — from these combinations and manipulations.

Part Three will discuss NIH grant AI 23946 further, in addition to presenting other aspects of Dr. Baric’s research journey.

ALL COVID-19 “VACCINES” MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE MARKET AND FROM USE IN THE UNITED STATES. NOW.

ALL GAIN-OF-FUNCTION RESEARCH IN THE UNITED STATES MUST STOP. NOW.

THERE. MUST. BE. ACCOUNTABILITY.

THERE. MUST. BE. JUSTICE.

THERE. MUST. BE. TRUTH.

Peace, Good Energy, Respect: PAVACA

References:

[1]: “Curriculum Vitae Ralph S. Baric.” https://sph.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/112/2016/09/CV_Ralph_Baric.pdf. 2016.

[2]: “Recombination between non-segmented RNA genomes of murine coronaviruses.” Lai, M.M.C., Baric, R.S., Makino, S., Keck, J.G., Egbert, G.E., Leibowitz, J., Stohlman, S.A. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC252599/pdf/jvirol00116-0117.pdf. 1986.

[3]: “Specific interaction between the coronavirus leader RNA sequences and the nucleocapsid protein.” Stohlman, S.A., Baric, R.S., Nelson, G., Soe, L., Deans, B. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/instance/253863/pdf/jvirol00090-0384.pdf. November 1988.

[4]: “Rabbit cardiomyopathy.” Baric, R.S., Edwards, S., Small, J.D. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4684-5823-7_71#chapter-info. 1990.

[5]: “An experimental model for dilated cardiomyopathy after rabbit coronavirus infection.” L K Alexander, J D Small, S Edwards, R S Baric. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/166.5.978. November 1992.

[6]: “Coronavirus Genome Structure and Replication.” D.A. Brian, R.S. Baric. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26765-4_1. 25 October 2005.

[7]: “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus nsp9 Dimerization Is Essential for Efficient Viral Growth.” Zachary J. Miknis, Eric F. Donaldson, Timothy C. Umland, Ryan A. Rimmer, Ralph S. Baric, L. Wayne Schultz. https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.01505-08. 1 April 2009.

(Intellectual Property Disclaimer and Notice: With the exception of the linked published scientific papers and other linked items in the public domain listed above, the ideas, conclusions, and opinons in today’s offering are by PAVACA. Proper credit must be given to PAVACA if the ideas and conclusions of today’s offering are used by other blog writers, by podcasters, in social media, or in print media.)

Health Friday 12.5.2025 Open Thread: The Baric Files, Part One

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There are Important Notifications from our host, Wolf Moon; the Rules of our late, good Wheatie; and, certain caveats from Yours Truly, of which readers should be aware. They are linked here. Note: Yours Truly has checked today’s offering for AI-generated content. To the best of her knowledge and belief, there is none, except perhaps for AI-generated images within URL links. If readers wish to post AI-generated content in today’s discussion thread, they must cite their source. Thank you.

Special Note regarding today’s offering: In no way is the following, or The Baric Files series in general in Health Friday posts, to be construed as a “character assassination”, or as an “indictment”, or as any other type of attack or smear on Ralph S. Baric, PhD., of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, or of his lab at the university. The linked scientific papers, images therefrom, and other information about Dr. Baric (such as his Curriculum Vitae) are all available on the internet. The ideas and conclusions of today’s offering are by Yours Truly. There is a plethora of items related to Dr. Baric; Yours Truly will focus on a few of them in each part of The Baric Files.

Today’s offering is Part One of six.

The Baric Files, Part One: The Beginnings

Ralph S. Baric, PhD, is a professor at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Please see screenshots from his UNC faculty profile, below [1}:

Dr. Baric has been affiliated with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 1986. Please see the screenshots from his Curriculum Vitae, below regarding his education and employment [2]:

One was curious as to the beginnings of Dr. Baric’s scientific research journey, a journey which ultimately led him to the lab-creation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19 virus). Looking through the section VIII. PUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS: of Dr. Baric’s Curriculum Vitae, it appears, in Yours Truly’s opinion, that the journey began with:

A mosquito. A certain mosquito that carries a certain virus. A certain virus called the Sindbis virus. A virus particle of which, in certain ways, looks like a “prototype” of a COVID-19 virus particle.

There are several listings of early papers co-authored by Dr. Baric regarding the Sindbis virus. It appears that after a paper on the Sindbis virus that he co-authored was published in 1984, his research attention began to shift to mouse viruses and rabbit viruses — coronaviruses. A screenshot from this portion of Dr. Baric’s Curriculum Vitae is below:

What is the Sindbis virus? Please see the screenshots below, from the Wikipedia entry on the subject [3]; first, of the text:

And, an image of the Sindbus virus particle, also per the WIkipedia entry:

The Sindbis virus does indeed have a nucleocapsid and spike structure (as does the COVID-19 virus.) Please see the screenshots below, from the Geng, et al., 2025 paper on structure and other “hallmarks” of the Sindbis virus [4]:

Note that the Sindbis virus has open reading frames (ORF), a structural hallmark that is also found in the COVID-19 virus. And, also from the Geng, et al., paper, the following:

In addition, the Sindbis virus has a C-terminal area, and an N-terminal area, also structurally similar in concept to the COVID-19 virus. In fact, the Sindbis virus is one of the “branch” members of coronaviruses from the family Togaviridae, genus Alphavirus (per the Wikipedia entry on Sindbis virus, above.)

The following screenshot is from the Fact Sheet on Sindbis Virus Fever from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) [5]:

A 1983 Sindbis virus scientific research paper by Dr. Baric discusses the function of host transcription in the replication of the virus within the host body [6]: again, a similarity to the transcription function of the COVID-19 virus once the virus is introduced into the host body.

In fact, the Sindbis virus, since it can be “safely handled” in BSL-2 laboratories, can be used as a “mixing agent coronavirus” in experiments to lab-create “virus-like particles” (VLPs) [7]. Please see the screenshot from the Results section of the paper by Ma, et al., regarding using Sindbis virus particles to lab-create a “mixture” of this virus with the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) virus to further “investigate” its entry into the ACE2 cells.

Speaking of laboratory safety, the question Yours Truly raises regarding the above paper is that the Sindbis virus was “mixed with” elements of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19 virus) in what appears to be less then BSL-4 laboratory conditions.

By the year 1984 (if not before), it is possible that Dr. Baric had appeared on the “radar” of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who in that year was named Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID; a division of the National Institutes of Health [NIH, itself a division of the Department of Health and Human Services [HHS]; Dr. Fauci had joined the NIAID in 1968, just after he had completed his medical Residency) [8].

To be continued in Part Two.

ALL COVID-19 “VACCINES” MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE MARKET AND FROM ALL USE IN THE UNITED STATES. NOW.

ALL COVID-19 “VACCINES” MUST BE REMOVED FROM ANY AND ALL “RECOMMENDED” IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULES: WHETHER THOSE SCHEDULES ARE PUBLISHED BY THE CDC, BY THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS, OR ANY OTHER ENTITY OR PERSON. NOW.

THERE. MUST. BE. ACCOUNTABILITY.

THERE. MUST. BE. JUSTICE.

THERE. MUST. BE. TRUTH.

Peace, Good Energy, Respect: PAVACA

(Intellectual Property and Disclaimer Notice: With the exception of published papers and other publicly-available internet links, the ideas and conclusions in today’s offering are by PAVACA. Proper credit must be given to PAVACA for use of the ideas and/or conclusions of today’s post are used by other blog writers, by podcasters, in social media, and in print media.)

References:

[1]: “Ralph S. Baric, PhD.” https://sph.unc.edu/adv_profile/ralph-s-baric-phd/. n.d.

[2]: “Curriculum Vitae Ralph S. Baric.” https://sph.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/112/2016/09/CV_Ralph_Baric.pdf. 2016.

[3]: “Sindbis Virus.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindbis_virus.

[4]: “Structured and Functional Hallmarks of Sindbis Virus Proteins: From Virion Architecture to Pathogenesis.” Qiben Geng, et al. 27 August 2025. https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/26/17/8323.

[5]: “Facts about Sindbis fever.” https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/sindbis-fever/facts. Page last updated 15 December 2023.

[6]: “Requirement for host transcription in the replication of Sindbis virus.” Baric, R.S.; Carlin, L.J., Johnston, R.E. https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.45.1.200-205.1983. Published 1983.

[7]: “Engineering virus-like particles for safe and versatile modeling of SARS-CoV-2 host interaction and immune escape.” Liang Ma, et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08768-4. 30 August 2025.

[8]: “Anthony Fauci.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/anthony_fauci.