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This is an historic time. This could be the next 1918 pandemic.

Why is it taking so long to get a screening test? Are you isolating yourself?

You can. It's actually to protect you.

Wash hands, wash hands, wash hands.

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

Welcome, welcome to Science Rules, coronavirus edition.

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

to keep you informed, prepared, and calm.

We're all in this together, my friends.

In the US, more coronavirus cases are being reported every day.

And part of the reason we're seeing this rise is because more tests are being conducted.

At the same time, here in New York, the hospitalization rates have begun to slow.

On Sunday, they were doubling every two days. On Monday, every 3.4 days, on Tuesday, every 4.7 days.

It seems to be spreading out, slowing down.

But is this progress real? Or is it just a consequence of so-called small sample sizes?

I mean, two days, four days. That's not that much to go on.

But get this. As of Thursday, the 26th of March, there have been 79,082 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the US with over 1,000 deaths.

So a question on everyone's mind. How long till the number of cases reported every day begins to go down, begins to decrease?

If we relax our isolation efforts, social distancing, and so on, will the numbers go right back up again?

These are the kinds of questions I want to ask our guest today.

He's Adam Kucharski, a bio-statistician at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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