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Science Rules! with Bill Nye - Coronavirus: America’s King of Health Is Skipping Christmas … and So Should You

Francis Collins is the director of the National Institutes of Health. He gives us a prognosis for the next few months and diagnoses the future of health research in the U.S.

Coronavirus: America’s King of Health Is Skipping Christmas … and So Should You

Why is it taking so long to get a screening test?

Something that we have never experienced before.

I mean you're the scientist, you're gonna have to tell me.

Welcome, welcome to Science Rules, coronavirus edition.

I'm your host Bill Nye and this is the series that brings you the latest analysis and the science of this pandemic.

We are still all in this together, my friends.

Right now in the U.S., we are witnessing the extreme results of COVID fatigue, colder weather,

and that irresistible desire to be together at the holidays.

Roughly 200,000 people a day are testing positive for the coronavirus here in the U.S.

with death totaling one or 2,000 every day.

And we're likely to have more than 300,000 fatalities in this country by the end of the year.

So here to help us understand how the pandemic ran out of control despite all our advanced health research

and where we go from here is none other than the director of the National Institutes of Health himself, Dr. Francis Collins.

He is a physician and a geneticist by training.

He led the Human Genome Project for a number of years and among other awards,

he has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science.

Bill Nye is on a mission to change the world — one voicemail at a time. Bill and science writer Corey S. Powell take your burning questions and put them to the world's leading experts on just about every topic in the universe. Should you stop eating cheeseburgers to combat climate change? Could alien life be swimming inside the moons of Jupiter and Saturn? Does your pet parakeet learn to sing the way that you learned to speak? Bill, Corey, and their special guests will answer those questions and convince you that... science rules!

0:00.0	This is an historic time.
0:04.0	This is going to be a multi-year fight.
0:08.0	Why is it taking so long to get a screening test?
0:11.0	It is not a hoax, it is real.
0:13.0	Something that we have never experienced before.
0:15.0	Wash hands, wash hands, wash hands.
0:18.0	I mean you're the scientist, you're gonna have to tell me.
0:24.0	Welcome, welcome to Science Rules, coronavirus edition.
0:27.0	I'm your host Bill Nye and this is the series that brings you the latest analysis and the science of this pandemic.
0:34.0	To keep you informed, prepared and calm.
0:38.0	We are still all in this together, my friends.
0:41.0	Right now in the U.S., we are witnessing the extreme results of COVID fatigue, colder weather,
0:48.0	and that irresistible desire to be together at the holidays.
0:51.0	Roughly 200,000 people a day are testing positive for the coronavirus here in the U.S.
0:58.0	with death totaling one or 2,000 every day.
1:02.0	And we're likely to have more than 300,000 fatalities in this country by the end of the year.
1:08.0	The virus is simply everywhere.
1:11.0	So here to help us understand how the pandemic ran out of control despite all our advanced health research
1:17.0	and where we go from here is none other than the director of the National Institutes of Health himself, Dr. Francis Collins.
1:25.0	He is a physician and a geneticist by training.
1:28.0	He led the Human Genome Project for a number of years and among other awards,
1:32.0	he has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science.
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Coronavirus: America’s King of Health Is Skipping Christmas … and So Should You

Science Rules! with Bill Nye

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