HOUSTON – A new way to kill the coronavirus and it may help kids for this upcoming school year. The invention: An air filter that can trap the virus, killing it instantly. Researchers at the University of Houston teamed up with Houston-based medical real estate firm Medistar to design an air filter that could change the way we fight the coronavirus. The researchers knew the virus can remain in the air for about three hours, meaning a filter that could remove it quickly was a viable plan. Medistar executives are is also proposing a desk-top model, capable of purifying the air in an office worker’s immediate surroundings.