Coronavirus: Where Are The Tests?

Science Rules! with Bill Nye

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🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In the first Coronavirus Edition of Science Rules, Bill Nye takes on the topic of testing: the barriers, the breakthroughs and the big picture, with Harvard epidemiologist Dr Michael J Mina. Send Bill a voicemail about your experience in the pandemic, at (201) 472-0785.

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0:00.0	This is in historic time.
0:04.0	This could be the next 1918 pandemic.
0:07.0	Why is it taking so long to get a screening test?
0:09.0	Are you isolating yourself?
0:11.0	Who do you count on? It's actually to protect you.
0:14.0	Wash hands, wash hands, wash hands.
0:17.0	I mean you're the scientist, you're gonna have to tell me.
0:23.0	Welcome, welcome to Science Rules, the coronavirus edition.
0:28.0	I'm your host Bill Nye, and this is the series where we bring you the latest fact-checked analysis.
0:35.0	Trying to keep everyone prepared, informed, and calm.
0:39.0	It's still hard to get a handle on the magnitude of the whole COVID-19 pandemic.
0:44.0	How many people are already infected?
0:46.0	How quickly it's spreading? How much worse is it gonna get?
0:49.0	Or when will it get better?
0:51.0	Now is the time to pull out all the stops to curb the spread of this thing.
0:55.0	Shutdowns of all non-essential services are active in many places.
0:59.0	Plus stay-at-home orders are in place for a hundred million of us Americans.
1:04.0	Social distancing is the new norm.
1:06.0	Six feet, everybody. Two meters. Six feet.
1:09.0	As of the start of this week, the US has had a total number of cases of 33,400,
1:16.0	which includes 400 deaths.
1:19.0	Globally, there have been more than 15,000 deaths from the coronavirus.
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