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Science Rules! with Bill Nye

Coronavirus: What Lies Ahead? It Depends

Science Rules! with Bill Nye

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Science

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

It seems like every day brings a different prediction for how bad this pandemic will get. We set out to find what the data really say.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:12.0

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.

0:28.0

You're the scientists, you're going to have to tell me.

0:33.0

Welcome, welcome to Science Rules, coronavirus edition.

0:36.0

I'm your host, Bill Nye, and this is the series that brings you the latest analysis and the science of this pandemic.

0:44.0

We want to keep you informed, prepared, and calm.

0:48.0

We are still all in this together, my friends.

0:51.0

And in the two weeks since the last time you heard from us,

0:54.0

coronavirus cases in the US have crossed the two million mark with 120,000 deaths so far.

1:02.0

On the one hand, the death rate is decreasing overall.

1:06.0

But on the other hand, the infection rate is going back up in many places.

1:11.0

Oklahoma and Missouri, for example, had their biggest one-day increase in cases this past weekend.

1:17.0

It's a complicated situation, people.

1:19.0

The data seemed to point in five different directions at once, depending on where you look.

1:23.0

Are we caught on the crest of a massive new wave of infections?

1:28.0

Or are these just isolated peaks that will dissipate?

1:33.0

Or will we see a quarter million deaths or more by the end of the year?

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