Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Nowinski.
I'm an emergency physician. Part of our training was in sports medicine. Part of it was in environmental medicine, by which I mean exposure to whatever environments you have. It is refreshing to see sports in general listening to the medical profession.
I think back to the days when heat illness was first being recognized. A lot of people don't know this, but 500 Americans a year die of heat illness. The vast majority of them are athletes and military recruits. It used to be that coaches prohibited the drinking of water during practice, because they thought that drinking water made you weak. They actually made athletes put on rubber suits and exercise in the hot sun because all that sweating would make them lose weight. If they died, well, you know, they shouldn't have been there in the first place.