Texas colleges offer free coronavirus tests. Why aren't more students getting tested 2 months 3 weeks 3 days ago Wednesday, December 30 2020 Dec 30, 2020 December 30, 2020 11:23 AM December 30, 2020 in News - Local Source: https://www.texastribune.org/ Share: A COVID-19 testing site at the University of Texas at Austin on Sept. 4, 2020. (Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune) Texas colleges and universities spent the summer months bulking up their testing capacity to catch COVID-19 outbreaks fueled by students who are infected but don’t show symptoms. The University of Texas at Austin said it could test up to 5,000 asymptomatic students, faculty and staff weekly. Texas A&M University trumpeted a similar goal of testing more than 5,000 students each week — about 7% of the student body. And the University of Texas at El Paso, with about 25,000 students, said it had the capacity to test up to 2,500 campus members weekly.