Can you talk a little bit about them and why they're important to be looked at more in depth during this symposium?

Yeah, I mean, I think anyone living in Idaho this summer really felt how the heat and the smoke are impacting us.

You know, I think everyone can relate to a story where they were unable to go out and do something because it was dangerously hot or the air quality was dangerously poor, or they did go out and then they ended up with, you know, a cough and a headache and felt weak and tired and fatigued and itchy eyes.

and all the general things we think of when it comes to wildfire smoke and air quality issues.

But more and more, we're seeing studies come out that these things are impacting us in a lot more ways, like trouble with kidney disease, trouble with heart attacks and strokes.

And there was just a study published this week that showed how grossly we're undercounting deaths attributed to heat.

which I think also goes along with wildfire smoke.

Dr. Sims, do you feel that's true? I mean, do doctors need to get involved as you have in these climate conversations?