From Neil deGrasse Tyson’s point of view, he’s asking people to listen to scientists and “the advice of science” in general.
The world is definitely more interconnected than it has ever been.
People are currently at home with a wide breadth of information at their fingertips thanks to the world wide web, but one of the criticisms of this crisis has been that communities and people in varying fields cannot get on the same page about how to respond to Covid-19.