As heat waves continue to grip the nation, the Biden administration announced an online dashboard for tracking heat-related illness nationwide.

The new system, called the Heat-Related EMS Activation Surveillance Dashboard, is run by the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The agencies announced Wednesday that the tracker is intended to provide emergency medical services with relevant, timely data on heat emergencies that will help ensure outreach and medical aid are given to vulnerable populations.

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“Heat is no longer a silent killer. From coast-to-coast, communities are battling to keep people cool, safe, and alive due to the growing impacts of the climate crisis,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said.

“President Biden is committed to providing communities with the resources they need to stay safe,” he added. “The EMS HeatTracker is a powerful tool from the Biden-Harris administration that brings actionable information to prioritize outreach and interventions, helping prevent heat-related illnesses and death, and build resilience across the nation.”

Part of the National EMS Information System, the tracker collects data from emergency calls to show state and county-level heat-related EMS activations in the nation’s different locales. It does this by breaking down patient characteristics by age, race, gender, and urbanicity.

Although it will be updated every Monday morning, the data will be released two weeks behind real time.

As of Wednesday, the online dashboard showed over 11,723 heat-related EMS activations were made in the last 30 days, and 40 Americans died as a result of the sweltering heat. Of those activations, 64.6% of patients were transported to a medical facility. During that time period, the data also showed EMS took an average of 12.7 minutes to reach the patient.

Nevada, Arkansas, New Mexico, Kansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Arizona, Vermont, and South Carolina were the 10 states that had the highest rate of heat-related EMS activations in the past month, respectively.

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The new federal system is the Biden administration’s answer to record temperatures in the past month that saw upwards of 100-degree heat in certain areas of the South and West Coast.

The National Weather Service reported on Wednesday over 68 million people across the country are still under heat alerts.