Coronavirus: What Do the CDC and a Garden of Fake Flowers Have in Common?

Science Rules! with Bill Nye

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🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The author of Moneyball, The Blind Side, and The Big Short explains why a country with so many experts was so unprepared for this pandemic. (This interview was recorded May 24.)

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0:00.0	This is in historic time.
0:05.0	This is going to be a multi-year fight.
0:08.0	Why is it taking so long to get a screening test?
0:11.0	It is not a hoax, it is real.
0:13.0	Something that we have never experienced before.
0:16.0	Wash hands, wash hands, wash hands.
0:19.0	I mean you're the scientist, you're gonna have to tell me.
0:24.0	Welcome, welcome to Science Rules, coronavirus edition.
0:27.0	I'm your host Bill Nye. This is the series that brings you the latest analysis
0:31.0	and the science of this pandemic so that you can stay informed, prepared, and come.
0:38.0	We are all in this together, my friends.
0:40.0	And our guest today has a new book that spotlights the people who saw this mess coming
0:46.0	last year back in early 2020 and he tried to prevent it.
0:49.0	These people tried to prevent it.
0:51.0	And the government systems stifled them.
0:54.0	The author is none other than Michael Lewis, whom you may know from books like The Big Short,
0:59.0	Money Ball, The Blind Side, and this new book is called The Premonition,
1:04.0	A Pandemic Story.
1:06.0	Michael Lewis, welcome to Science Rules, coronavirus edition.
1:09.0	May I call you Michael?
1:10.0	Yes.
1:11.0	Yeah, I call you Bill.
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