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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 Hourani to bring about a "unique design" made from heated nickel foam, which was detailed in a paper published by Materials Today Physics. Researchers reportedly conducted tests at Galveston National Laboratory and found that 99.8 percent of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was killed "instantly," after a single pass through the filter. The process does, however, require the foam to be heated at 392 degrees Fahrenheit. TEXAS S...

State Health Director Bruce Anderson commented, “We encourage everyone to exercise regularly, and going to the gym is a good way to maintain both physical and mental health. However, it is critically important that safe practices are followed and that the gym is well-ventilated. Individuals at a gym are often breathing hard while exercising, which puts them and those around them at increased risk.”

Nueces County officials announced Friday that an infant has died of COVID-19. According to a news release from the city of Corpus Christi, the patient was a boy younger than six months of age but would not release further information due to privacy reasons. Corpus Christi Councilman Ben Molina said the boy was only six weeks old, as did Nueces County Commissioner John Marez. Extremely sad news. The Health District just received notice of a COVID-19 related death of a six week old infant. My...Posted by John Marez on Friday, July 10, 2020 Corpus Christi has been hard hit by the spread of COVID-19, with more than 5,000 cases reported since the pandemic began. The positivity rate is greater than 22%, according to the city’s dashboard. The county has also experienced a recent spike...

Updated 7/10, 5:45 pm to reflect funding from the City of Dallas and Tarrant County. An ambitious new study will track the prevalence of COVID-19 in Dallas and Tarrant counties and answer pressing questions about how the disease is spreading through North Texas. The study, being launched Monday by experts at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Texas Health Resources, will recruit 44,000 adults, ages 18 to 89, to answer survey questions and get tested for COVID-19 and antibodies to the novel coronavirus. “There’s a lot of underrecognition of this disease,” said Dr. Amit Singal, the study’s principal investigator and a physician at UT Southwestern. “The first thing that we’re really trying to assess is exactly how many people have the infection and how many people have been exposed in the Da...

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According to police reports, when officers first arrived at a large house in village of Royal Palm Beach on May 22 and knocked on the door, they were met by a drunken, belligerent man who claimed to be of legal age. Inside the house, the reports state, officers could see some 10 teens drinking. After backup arrived and the man who answered the door was arrested, officers allowed the 40 to 50 teenagers who had been in the backyard — “consuming what appeared to be alcoholic beverages and yelling at each other”— to leave.

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Autopsies on people who died of the coronavirus are helping doctors understand how the disease affects the body -- and one of the most remarkable findings concerned blood clotting, a pathologist says. Dr. Amy Rapkiewicz, the chairman of the department of pathology at NYU Langone Medical Center, spoke to Erin Burnett on OutFront Thursday night. Some Covid-19 patients are known to develop blood clotting issues, but the degree and the extent to which that occurs was described as "dramatic" by Rapkiewicz. In the early stages of the pandemic, bedside clinicians noticed a lot of blood clotting "in lines and various large vessels," she said. "What we saw at autopsy was sort of an extension of that," she said. "The clotting was not only in the large vessels but also in the smaller vessels. "And ...

*NOTE: Daily lab data on the DHHS Dashboard and SNHD reports is updated every morning for the previous day. LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The state has 1,004 new cases of COVID-19, setting a new single-day record. According to data released by the state and county, 827 of those cases are in Clark County. The state is also reporting the number of patients in ICU units has reached a record 248, the highest since the start of the pandemic. (NOTE: DHHS reported a higher number of single-day cases on June 26 but later revised that data due to a delay in reporting.) The state has reported its five largest single-day increases for COVID-19 case in the past two weeks. There are now 25,908 confirmed cases and 579 deaths in Nevada. Top 5 Number of COVID-19 cases Date reported ...