Coronavirus: Long-Term Health Effects

Science Rules! with Bill Nye

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🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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More than 99 percent of people who get COVID-19 recover. But many unknown chronic effects may await those people all the same.

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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?
0:10.0	It is not a hoax, it is real.
0:12.0	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.
0:23.0	Welcome, welcome to Science Rules, coronavirus edition.
0:26.0	I'm your host Bill Nye, and this is the series
0:28.0	that brings you the latest analysis and the science of this pandemic
0:32.0	to keep you informed, prepared, and calm.
0:36.0	We're still all in this together, my friends,
0:40.0	more than five million people in the US have been infected
0:43.0	with this novel coronavirus.
0:45.0	That's roughly one and a half percent of the population.
0:48.0	There have been at least 170,000 deaths,
0:53.0	which means that the vast majority of people with the virus
0:56.0	are indeed recovering.
0:58.0	But what does that recovery look like?
1:00.0	More specifically, what are the long-term health effects of COVID-19?
1:05.0	Here to help answer that is Dr. William Petrie.
1:08.0	He is the chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases
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