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Everybody? >> thats an excellent question. heres the thing. what we are trying to do is not let great be the enemy of good. who do we need to protect most? our health workers, our health systems. we need to be able to practically speaking get people back in as soon as we can. if we have a tsunami of cases as we are having right now and health workers are testing positive we are going to run into big trouble here if we have people not able to come back in. this is very practical. i believe we wil...

And who isnt. we need wide scale repetitive testing to pull them out of the transmission cycle if theyre positive. >> dana: hopefully that will happen. today a lot of frustrated people who want to travel, make sure theyre safe and cant get the tests. we are in year three of the pandemic at this point. i wish you a very merry christmas. thank you for coming on the show >> california will require all healthcare workers to get booster shots. they already have to be fully vaccinated. the governor sa...

Preschoolers, 3, 4, and 5. you requesting to make them wear mask we are keeping them out of school. dr. robert redfield was on with martha yesterday and said yeah, i have no idea why they are not studying this. policy should begrounded in inds opposed to opinion there has been very few studies that really are compelling in that setting of the classroom. one of the things that i think is really important in the classroom for example is how to identify the silent epidemic. this is why we have reco...

Infected and get them out of the transmission cycle. so theres a lot of data -- >> martha: people say theres no study that would back up the masks. so the question is -- you did studies then but did them with dummies. what has been going on the past nine, ten months rather than data that is leading the push with our schools? >> its a fair criticism. a fair criticism. you heard i think in the "wall street journal" they talked about $42 billion of nih funding and less than 2% was on covid. these a...