This is Coronavirus 411, the latest COVID-19 info and new hotspots… Just the facts… for Wednesday June 17th, 2020.   Dexamethasone, was proven in British clinical trials to reduce the risk of death in COVID-19 patients with severe lung damage. The steroid is currently on the market and widely available. CureVac, a German Pharmaceutical company, has received the green light to begin human trials for their vaccine candidate. This is the 11th potential vaccine to enter clinical trials worldwide. Earlier this week, the German Government purchased 23% of CureVac. A South Dakota company is working on a COVID-19 antibody treatment that comes from cow plasma. The CEO of SAB Biotherapeutics told CNN, the genetically engineered cows are producing antibodies that kill the virus in the lab. They expect to start human trials in July. 

Record daily cases were reported yesterday in Florida, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon and South Carolina. The U.S. will extended land border restrictions with Mexico and Canada through July 21st. An Oklahoma judge denied an emergency motion to halt President Trump’s campaign rally, set for Saturday in Tulsa. Some lower risk inmates in California with less than 180 days left on their sentence will be released starting July 1st to lower the risk of exposure to COVID-19. 

China is limiting travel in and out of Beijing, after a new cluster of cases was to discovered. Schools and public attractions have been closed and there are temperature checks in neighborhoods around the city center reports The Washington Post. Over 300 households in Berlin, Germany have been put in to quarantine, as 57 new cases were discovered in the city. The President of Honduras and his wife have tested positive for COVID-19. He said he has only mild symptoms and will stay on the job.

The locations of hotspots and U.S and Country diagnoses in a moment.  

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