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.

We want to keep you informed, prepared, and calm.

We are all in this together, my friends.

Now with the big exception of a few places like Michigan, New York, and New Jersey,

the rate of COVID infection across the country has pretty much leveled off.

And roughly 3 million people every day are getting a vaccine.

In other words, the end is inside my friends if we just keep wearing masks avoiding indoor gatherings.

And for Louis pastures, sick people get vaccinated.

Here at Science Rules, coronavirus edition, we think it's time to start looking forward.

And how we can avoid having to go through all this again with COVID-22 or whatever.

The next pandemic, whatever's gonna be called.

But to look forward, we should, we must, we have to look back at how all this began.

Most likely, somewhere near Wuhan, China, most likely in a bat.

And according to the evidence that we have today from the World Health Organization,

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