not get vaccinated. it does make sense in terms of a booster shot. if the doses were to go to someone who has no access to vaccine whatsoever around the globe, it would be a more equitable and just society. martha: senator burr is asking for answers about what happened to the $82.6 billion that americans approved for that money to ramp up testing. that s a lot of money and people want to know where the tests are. dr. besser, thanks very much. great to speak with you. thanks, martha. martha: you bet. so new york city s new mayor is not ruling out requiring booster shots for city employees but he says he s not there yet. we re going to examine the numbers. if we have to get to the place of making that mandatory, we re going to do that. we re encouraging them to do it now. i took my booster shot.
that wasn t even about science. i mean, how difficult is it to address the actual pandemic when it s these kind of questions being asked at a hearing, obviously, with great setup and this is what his staff has been preparing him to ask? well, that s the whole point, anderson, which i said. it was so counterproductive to what the intent of the hearing is. the hearing is we are dealing with a catastrophic pandemic that has already killed over 850,000 americans. and there was good faith on both sides of the aisle, and many of the republicans and the democrats, of course, and it was led by, you know, in a bipartisan way by senator burr and senator murray. and yet, the only thing he had in mind was ad hominem, which i think that is the real issue here. forget about attacking me. i have been there, i have been around the block. but what a terrible time to be distracting from what we really should be doing. i just i want to ask you
the republicans and and the democrats, of course, and it was led by, you know, in a bipartisan way by senator burr and senator murray. and yet, the only thing he had in mind was ad hominem when i think that is the real issue here. forget about attacking me. i ever b i have been there, i have been around the block. but what a terrible time to be distracting from what we really should be doing? i just i want to ask you just about the question about cloth masks because, obviously, this is one of those things that affects us a lot of people. i don t quite know what the answer is. i have heard now we have had people on air, dr. wen saying cloth masks are basically kind of useless, better than nothing but really want the n95 or kn-95 or or just some other kind of medical mask. do you would you what do you recommend? yeah. there well, i recommend that you get the highest-quality mask that you can tolerate and that s available to you. right now, doesn t seem to be
i mean, putting me aside with all the ad hominems and things that you showed on that film, the hearing was a very important hearing and there was a lot of good faith even though there was disagreement political and other disagreement on both sides of the aisle. i mean, senator murray and senator burr really wanted to get down to the bottom of some of the things that we can improve on. so, in and even the republican senators were were asking good, tough questions. and we should be having to respond to tough questions. and yet, the only thing that came out of senator rand paul and, to some extent, senator roger marshall, were ad h hominems, which does nothing but distract from what we really need to be doing. we have a pandemic that everyone knows like now is like a tsunami on us. we are going to have close to a
iconoclastic, to be provocative, and theatrical. that s what you saw in the clip. they got my attention and i sat down and listened to them because what they said made absolute sense. and we made major changes. they were dignified people. and like i said, many of them are my closest friends right now. what we re having now is outright lies that clearly are in the realm of politics. i mean, the thing i showed at the hearing is very, very true. we were having a hearing today, chris, that was a tough hearing. there were tough questions that were asked on both sides of the aisle. i mean, the democrats clearly, it was not a piece of cake. they were asking very good questions about what the administration was doing. and the republicans themselves led by senator burr, were asking questions that were important, and mitt romney and susan collins and tuberville and others, including senator moran,