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This is in 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.

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

Welcome, welcome to Science Rules, Coronavirus Edition.

I'm your host, Bill Nye, and this is our special series in which we bring you the latest analysis and the science of this pandemic so that you can be informed, prepared and calm.

We are all in this together, my friends.

And as of this recording on Thursday, May 7, 2020, we have over 1.25 million reported cases of COVID-19 in the United States alone.

And that includes everybody 75,000 deaths.

We humans are getting way too close for comfort with this coronavirus.

This is what you might call an acute crisis.

It's right here in our faces and it obviously demands an immediate response.

But remember, just because we have a new crisis doesn't make our old crisis go away.

That's right, everybody.

I'm talking about Bill's favorite topic, climate change.

And our guest today is going to help us zoom out and see the connections between our steadily warming planet and the COVID-19 crisis.

And believe you me, there are very strong connections.

David Wallace Wells is deputy editor of New York magazine.

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