This is an historic time.

This is going to be a multi-year fight.

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

It is not a hoax, it is real.

Something that we have never experienced before.

Wash hands, wash hands, wash hands.

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

so that you can stay informed, prepared, and calm.

We are still all in this together, my friends.

More than 3.7 million people have now been infected with the coronavirus in the United States.

And more than 140,000 of us have died.

That's 700,000 more infections than since our last coronavirus episode.

And 10,000 more deaths.

This is serious business.

This is the nature of everybody's favorite mathematical pattern, exponential growth.

All right, all right.

With an increasing number of people getting infected across the U.S.,

what we have learned about treating COVID-19.

One old idea that's getting new traction is called convalescent plasma.

Now, blood plasma is essentially every flowing saltwatery thing in your blood that doesn't have blood cells.

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