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.

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 to keep you informed, prepared, and especially

calm. We are all in this together, my friends.

We're gonna get through this together. With that said, we at Science Rules

coronavirus edition cannot avoid all of the agony and anxiety in the news coverage.

One mask is not enough. Where are two masks?

We're a three mask. A fourth wave is coming and the big one, the vaccines, maybe less effective

against the new COVID variants.

Whoa, it seems like these days most stories about the pandemic want you to do the opposite

of stay calm. They want you to panic.

Is this sort of coverage doing more harm than good?

That's the question. So here to help clarify what all of us media types are getting

wrong is Dr. Zaynep Tufecchi.

She is a techno sociologist at the University of North Carolina and a regular contributor

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