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Science Rules! with Bill Nye

Coronavirus: Should We Let People Get Infected?

Science Rules! with Bill Nye

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4.6 β€’ 4.7K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

If we want to achieve herd immunity to COVID-19, is the shortcut just to mingle without wearing masks, get a lot of us sick β€” and let a lot of people die?

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0:00.0

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This is in historic time.

0:14.0

This is going to be a multi-year fight.

0:17.0

Why is it taking so long to get a screening test?

0:20.0

It is not a hoax, it is real.

0:22.0

Something that we have never experienced before.

0:25.0

Wash hands, wash hands, wash hands.

0:27.0

And I mean you're the scientist, you're going to have to tell me.

0:34.0

Greetings, greetings, greetings. Welcome to Science Rules, coronavirus edition.

0:38.0

I'm your host, Bill Nye.

0:40.0

And this is the series that brings you the latest analysis and the science of this pandemic

0:45.0

to keep you informed, prepared, and calm.

0:49.0

We are all in this together, my friends, now more than ever.

0:53.0

We're nearing 1.8 million total cases of COVID-19 in the US

0:58.0

and we'll likely hit 2 million sometime this month.

1:02.0

But even that massive number is far short of the more than 200 million people.

1:07.0

Scientists estimate we'll have to develop resistance to this virus

1:11.0

in order to achieve this thing we call herd immunity.

1:14.0

And that's in the US alone.

1:16.0

Along with protesting peacefully and setting fires violently last weekend,

1:21.0

thousands and thousands of people are out yelling at each other,

1:25.0

often without masks, and seem they were always standing within arms reach of one another,

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