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Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell β€’ March 19, 2020
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Get Merch designed with ❀ from https://kgs.link/shop-120 Join the Patreon Bird Army 🐧 https://kgs.link/patreon β–Όβ–Ό More infos and links are just a click away β–Όβ–Ό A huge thanks to the experts who helped us on short notice with the video. Especially β€œOur World in Data”, the online publication for research and data on the world’s largest problems – and how to make progress solving them. Check out their site. It also includes a constantly updated page on the Corona Pandemic. In December 2019 the Chinese authorities notified the world that a virus was spreading through their communities. In the following months it spread to other countries, with cases doubling within days. This virus is the β€œSevere acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2”, that causes the disease called COVID19, and that everyone simply calls Coronavirus. What actually happens when it infects a human and what should we all do? 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