Coronavirus: Shopping Safely

Science Rules! with Bill Nye

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🗓️ 4 April 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Shopping for food is one of the few reasons we can leave the house these days. But advice has been swirling online about the risks of shopping and bringing items back into your home. Associate Professor of Global Health at Boston University Christopher Gill helps us assess the real risks when shopping and bringing food home.

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0:00.0	Witness Docs from Stitcher
0:12.0	This is an historic time. This could be the next 1918 pandemic.
0:17.0	Why is it taking so long to get a screening test? Are you isolating yourself?
0:21.0	You can. It's actually to protect you.
0:24.0	Wash hands, wash hands, wash hands.
0:27.0	I mean you're the scientist. You're going to have to tell me.
0:32.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to Science Rules, coronavirus edition.
0:37.0	I'm your host, Bill Nye, and this is the series that brings you the latest analysis and science for this pandemic.
0:46.0	Keep everybody informed, prepared, and calm.
0:50.0	We're all in this together, my friends.
0:52.0	A lot of us around the world right now are under advice to avoid going outside for anything other than the essentials.
1:00.0	But we've all got to eat that's an essential.
1:04.0	So there's been a lot of advice circling on the internet about how to manage your shopping trips and food deliveries to minimize your risk of getting COVID-19.
1:13.0	But well, opinions differ.
1:17.0	So today we're joined by associate professor of global health at Boston University, Christopher Gill, to filter through the options and talk about the science of shopping safely during this pandemic.
1:32.0	Dr. Gill, welcome to Science Rules.
1:35.0	Hi there, everybody. Greetings greetings.
1:38.0	So a question for everybody.
1:41.0	How crazy should we be? How insane should we all be when it comes to dealing with your surfaces?
1:48.0	The deep questions are actually surface questions.
1:53.0	How long does a virus live on a stainless steel surface and cardboard plastic?
1:58.0	And also how long does it last in the air?
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