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This is in 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.

And these days it isn't so easy to stay calm.

There's a dead leading virus out there to worry about and many of us are facing serious financial worries.

Meanwhile, we're cut off from our friends and family or maybe we're a little too close to our friends and family if you know what I'm saying.

So we see the signs of stress all around us.

The day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced social distancing measures in the UK,

researchers surveyed 2,000 people and found a 20% increase in people reporting symptoms of anxiety and depression.

So my neighbors have been obsessively wiping with alcohol, their packages and leaving their stuff out in the sun for days at a time.

They're doing things that they never used to do.

So could the COVID-19 pandemic leave us with a psychological pandemic?

Well, to get some answers to questions like that, today we're talking with Dr. Olivia Fisher.

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