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Table 2 Strategies to address COVID-19 testing hesitancy

From: Barriers to and strategies to address COVID-19 testing hesitancy: a rapid scoping review

Planning strategies

Process Strategies

Outcomes Strategies

•Eliminate costs of testing

•Incentivize testing with rewards

•Promote awareness and testing locations

•Scientific communication strategy aimed to improve health literacy

•Targeted communication strategies aimed at vulnerable populations to improve inequities

•More variability in type of testing sites (drive thru, walk up, at home, drone delivery etc.)

•Transportation support

•Culturally tailored testing sites for communities

•Have community champions

•Informative signage

•Housing for self-isolation

•Support for tracking and tracing