This is an 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.

I mean you're the scientist, you're gonna 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 are still all in this together, my friends.

As of early Monday, more than 12 million people in the US have been infected with the coronavirus,

with more than a million new infections in the last week,

and more than a quarter of a million deaths since January.

As the New York Times pointed out, that's roughly the population of Richmond, Virginia,

or Fort Wayne, Indiana, or St. Petersburg, Florida, Madison, Wisconsin,

Scott Salar, Arizona, Reno, Nevada, Buffalo, New York, and you get the grim picture people,

and in case someone tells you, oh, everyone else is handling this, just as poorly as we are.

That's great.

That's also more than 18% of all COVID-related deaths worldwide,

far more than our proportional share.

The US kind of sucks at this, with a new president coming into office in January,

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