Reproducibility and implementation of a rapid, community-based COVID-19 test and respond modelGabriel Chamie , Patric Prado , Yolanda Oviedo , Tatiana Vizcaíno , Carina Arechiga , Kara Marson , Omar Carrera , Manuel J Alvarado 3, Claudia G Corchado 3, Monica Gomez 3, Marilyn Mochel , Irene de Leon , Kesia K Garibay , Arturo Durazo , Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young , Irene H Yen , John Sauceda , Susana Rojas , Joe DeRisi , Maya Petersen , Diane V Havlir , Carina Marquez
PLOS One, 2022Abstract: In January 2021, we formed a community-academic Latino COVID-19 Collaborative with residents, leaders, and community-based organizations (CBOs) from majority-Latinx, low-income communities in three California counties (Marin/Merced/San Francisco). The collaborative met monthly to discuss barriers/facilitators for COVID-19 testing, and plan mass testing events informed by San Francisco's Unidos en Salud test and respond model, offering community-based COVID-19 testing and post-test support in two US-census tracts: Canal (Marin) and Planada (Merced). We evaluated implementation using the RE-AIM framework. To further assess testing barriers, we surveyed a random sample of residents who did not attend the events.
