What you need to know: May 19

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Here's what you need to know to start your day on May 19.

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Here's what you need to know to start your day.

Happening today... it's move- out day for the temporary field medical station set up at the enloe rehabilition center.

The temporary site did not see any patients.

The beds and other equipment will be relocated for possible staging or expansion elswhere in the state.### there is a free coronavirus testing site open in corning... testing process itself takes no more than ten minutes, and you will be able to get results in a few days the site has the capacity for more than 100 tests per day.

The site is at corning high school and will be open from 7 am to 7 pm, for the next two weeks.

But you do need an appointment.

County and state employees can now take a 20 hour online course to learn how to become contact tracers.

That's when public health reps track down people who are sick -- and who may have been exposed to coronavirus.

Through the program butte county added 12 new tracers have join the county's team, bringing the total number in butte to 41.

The program is part of the governor's reopening requirements.

### a u.s. district court has refused to dismiss a multi- state lawsuit filed by the california attorney general, and at least 18 others.

Filed last fall, the lawsuit challenged the current administration's efforts to roll back existing protections for threatened species and habitat under the endangered species act.

Established in 19-73, the act moves to protect species from extinction.## treasury secretary steven mnuchin and the chair of the federal reserve jerome powell are set to testify before the senate banking comittee today..

The two are set to speak on if the relief aid for americans had any effect on the u-s economy.

The testimonies come after a congress found the treasury has not paid out 46- billion in relief funds for the airline industry and national security.

### the president now says he is taking the anti- malarial drug hydroxychloroq uine.

Used to treat malaria and lupus, the president has heavily promoted the drug, despite clinical trials showing it doesnt work against the virus and could be harmful.

At least one human clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine - is showing promising results.

Reps with biotech company moderna says it measured neutralizing antibodies in eight people it vaccinated... which were proven to block the ability of the virus to infect cells.

The study results still need to be peer reviewed.

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