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Science Rules! with Bill Nye

Coronavirus: Contact Tracing 101

Science Rules! with Bill Nye

Stitcher

Science

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

A key to staying safe from COVID-19 is contact tracing — breaking the chain of transmission from person to person. Kelly Driscoll, head of the Community Tracing Collaborative in Massachusetts, explains how contact tracing works and what it can do to block the spread of the virus.

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0:00.0

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0:12.0

This is in historic time.

0:14.0

This is going to be a multi-year fight.

0:17.0

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

0:20.0

It is not a hoax, it is real.

0:22.0

Something that we have never experienced before.

0:25.0

Wash hands, wash hands, wash hands.

0:28.0

You're the scientists, you're going to have to tell me.

0:33.0

Welcome, welcome to Science Rules, coronavirus edition.

0:37.0

I'm your host Bill Nye.

0:39.0

And this is the series that brings you the latest analysis

0:42.0

and the science of this pandemic.

0:44.0

So we can keep you informed, prepared, and calm.

0:48.0

We are all in this together, my friends.

0:51.0

Even if you don't consider me your friend, we're still all in this together.

0:56.0

We are closing in today on 100,000 COVID-19 deaths in the United States.

1:02.0

But nearly every state is either reopening or is getting started in that direction.

1:07.0

To open safely before we have a vaccine, we're going to have to take a lot of precautions,

1:13.0

including something you're probably starting to hear a lot about, contact tracing.

1:18.0

It's one of the vertices of the triangle, testing, tracing, quarantining.

1:24.0

Contact tracing is a way to find out who is infected

1:27.0

and to keep them separate from the rest of the people who might be healthy

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