LAFAYETTE, Ind. – As the weather warms and the vaccine effort continues to expand, Tippecanoe County is seeing a decrease in something present since the arrival of the pandemic: testing for COVID-19. The number of reported tests for COVID-19 in the county each day has fallen since the third wave of the virus surged. On Friday, the Indiana State Department of Health’s dashboard tracking COVID-19 reported that a total of 108,401 tests have been given in Tippecanoe County since data collection began last March. Tippecanoe County’s first recorded test was reported March 1, 2020, the only test that day. From there, numbers steadily grew, hitting a first peak Aug. 17 with 1,551 tests, a second peak with 3,404 tests given Nov. 24 and the third peak and current record with 3,869 tests given Jan. 18, 2021.