As COVID-19 cases decline across Texas, testing rates are dropping, too By Anna Canizales COVID-19 testing has dropped to its lowest point in Texas since last fall, and health experts say the trend reflects the overall improvement in the course of the pandemic statewide. During the February winter storm that left millions of Texans without access to electricity or water, testing rates dipped below 50,000 tests per day on average for the first time since September. In Lubbock, the number of tests per day was average above 1,000 in October and November, but in recent weeks only several hundred news tests are being reported by the city health department each day.