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This is in historic time.

This is going to be a multi-year fight.

Why is it taking so long to get a screening test?

It is not a hoax, it is real.

Something that we have never experienced before.

Wash hands, wash hands, wash hands.

You're the scientists, 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, out breaks of COVID-19 are now flaring up in Africa.

New lockdowns are being put in place in northeastern China, and there are worrying signs of a coronavirus-related malady that affects teens and children.

While the president says he's looking forward to big, big stadiums loaded with people,

89,000 deaths have been recorded in the United States so far, and that number is still climbing by about 1,500 new deaths each day.

People keep calling the current situation unprecedented.

But this is far from the first time a pandemic has circled the globe permanently altering lives.

In recent years we've had AIDS, MERS, SARS, and Ebola.

Further back in history there was the Black Death, Yellow Fever, Blue Death, aka the Spanish Flu,

that killed more than 50 million people in 1918 and 1919.

What have we learned from these past pandemics that could help us now?

Most important, why does this keep happening?

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