Coronavirus: Why It Hits High-Income Countries Hardest

Science Rules! with Bill Nye

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🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee takes us through his investigation into why low-income countries seem to have largely escaped the pandemic’s wrath — and why they still need to get vaccines.

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0:00.0	This is in historic time.
0:04.0	This is going to be a multi-year fight.
0:08.0	Why is it taking so long to get a screening test?
0:10.0	It is not a hoax, it is real.
0:12.0	Something that we have never experienced before.
0:15.0	Wash hands, wash hands, wash hands.
0:18.0	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 and this is the series that brings you the latest analysis
0:31.0	and the science of this pandemic to keep you informed, prepared, and calm.
0:37.0	We are all in this together, my friends.
0:40.0	It's been a year since the World Health Organization officially declared that we are in a pandemic.
0:46.0	To date, there have been almost 120 million COVID-19 cases worldwide,
0:51.0	with more than 29 million of those cases here in the United States.
0:55.0	More than 2,600,000 people have died from this disease,
1:00.0	including more than 530,000 people in the US alone.
1:05.0	The relatively high number of deaths in the US compared to the rest of the world
1:09.0	points to a unique pattern of this virus.
1:12.0	Typically infectious diseases disproportionately hurt low income countries,
1:18.0	but if you look at the numbers, it's just not the case with this coronavirus.
1:22.0	Death rates are highest in countries like the US, the United Kingdom,
1:26.0	Italy, Germany, and France, and relatively low in countries like Nigeria,
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