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Texas colleges offer free coronavirus tests. Why aren t more students getting tested
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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.
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A mobile lab run by University of Illinois System subsidiary Shield T3 was set up Dec. 11 in Lot 64 near the WARF building. The lab will conduct diagnostic PCR testing of saliva samples collected at sites across campus from students and employees starting in January. Photo: Bryce Richter
Beginning in January, the University of Wisconsin–Madison will implement a new campus safety and testing program, adapted from a successful system called Shield T3 that was developed by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
This week, UIUC surpassed the 1 million test mark using their unique high-capacity saliva-based testing approach that represents 10% of all COVID-19 tests in Illinois and at times as many as 2% of the tests in the nation.