Here, in the Baric transcribed interview, he doesn't remember when he was added on the grant-he says 2019/2020! Wasn't it from early 2019? That's astonishing! He was added in phase 2, and look what he was supposed to perform: 
His role was "to study a couple of viruses that the WIV found that they were willing to share with him". Remember, that this is exactly the grant renewal where they talked about 10-25% differences in the spike compared to SARS1. They also were going to create consensus/synthetics
As far as I remember, they planned to prepare 2-3 synthetic constructs per year, based on the sequences WIV gave them (NIH grant renewal plan). So basically, if WIV had a backbone, Baric knew how to create synthetic using his 6 piece strategy, that was it! Please check lines 4070
Here is the transcript: oversight.house.gov/wp-content/upl…
Also, this: creating a mouse adapted SARS-2 by serial passage! Baric was the master in all such techniques!
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