Coronavirus: The End of the Beginning Pt. 1

Science Rules! with Bill Nye

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🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Ending a pandemic is no small feat. In part one of our series, Leading epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, who helped eradicate smallpox, talks about what it takes to put an end to disease. Time is of the essence, but so is patience: There’s a long road ahead before we can conquer COVID-19.

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0:00.0	Witness Docs from Stitcher
0:12.0	This is in 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.
0:33.0	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 to keep you informed, prepared and calm.
0:48.0	We are all in this together, my friends. And as of today, April 13th, there have been over 22,000 COVID-19 deaths in the US, even though the US is the world's third most populous country.
1:02.0	This number, the number of deaths is higher than in any other country in the world.
1:07.0	The Institute for Health, Metrics, and Evaluation, the IHME at the University of Washington, projects that the death rate will begin hitting its peak.
1:17.0	And hitting its peak in many states in the US this week, right now.
1:22.0	So are we getting closer to the end of this pandemic? Or is this just the beginning of a new phase?
1:29.0	I suspect it's the beginning of a news phase paraphrasing Winston Churchill as best I can.
1:35.0	This is not the end. This is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning, if you see what he's driving out there.
1:45.0	Our guest today is Dr. Larry Brilliant. He is a leading epidemiologist who helped with the eradication of smallpox and has long warned the world of the threat of a new pandemic.
1:56.0	Larry Brilliant has seen it all. So welcome to science rules, Dr. Brilliant.
2:02.0	Thank you, Bill. It's really a pleasure to be with you.
2:05.0	A pleasure, but we got a lot going on. And thank you for taking the time.
2:10.0	Now look, before we even talk about COVID-19, which is what's on everybody's mind, you were around you, you eradicated smallpox single handedly, you know, no one else helped.
2:24.0	You're the guy. Why? No, no, of course not. Smallpox was eradicated and at 15 year program begun when a Russian professor,
2:34.0	Danoff came to the UN and to WHO and said, let's get all the countries in the world together.
2:41.0	Are there lessons to be learned? What did we do with smallpox that we should or polio that we should or could be doing with COVID-19?
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