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Researchers at the University of Houston claimed to have designed a special air filter that can trap the novel coronavirus and blast it with heat to kill the disease on contact.Dr. Zhifeng Ren, director of the Texas Center of Superconductivity at UH, is the brains behind the project, the Houston Chronicle reported.Ren worked with Medistar CEO Monzer…

Tested by UTMB's Galveston National Laboratory, the filter killed 99.8 percent of coronavirus on a single pass. HOUSTON — A collaboration of scientific minds in Houston led to the development of what could be a gamechanger in the fight against COVID-19. It started with an idea from Medistar founder Monzer Hourani: a filter that could…

Houston officials are canceling next week’s in-person Texas Republican convention as coronavirus cases surge across the state, Mayor Sylvester Turner (D) said Wednesday. Turner said he instructed the Houston First Corporation, which operates the George R. Brown Convention Center, to exercise its right to contractually cancel the GOP convention that was set to be held next…

(File) HOUSTON – This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.When Karen Salazar stopped by to check on her mother on the evening of June 22, she found her in worse shape…

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner (D) pushed back on President TrumpDonald John TrumpProtesters tear down statue of Christopher Columbus in Baltimore 'Independence Day' star Bill Pullman urges Americans to wear a 'freedom mask' in July 4 PSA Protesters burn American flag outside White House after Trump's July Fourth address MORE’s characterization of the coronavirus as “harmless”…