time, particularly senator paul is wasting time, using really very high caliber accusatory words, sort of says it all to me. why are we even spending our time talking about this, when the urgency to get us out of this really difficult phase of the pandemic could not be more acute right now? so you know, it's exhausting, and i wish that i could give dr. paul a tour of our icu right now. >> you were saying it best right there. one thing that is very true is that senator paul, fundraises off of his fights with dr. fauci almost constantly, you can see those email, but let's talk about what you are seeing in your icu, the urgency of now, in this moment, and where this hearing will hopefully likely refocus. right now, as we just looked this morning, it's 41.2% positivity rate in alabama right now. what does that reflect? talk to me.