Methods
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At the outset of OSJP, the goal of the project was to partner with community-based organizations and county public health entities to implement recurring SARS-CoV-2 testing sites across the state of Oregon. As a first step, we identified potential counties that were both feasible to reach by our testing team and had a large percentage of Latinx residents. Second, we reached out to county public health entities to determine whether they had a need for additional testing services for Latinx community members and to identify an ordering provider for the tests. County public health partners then helped our team identify community-based organizations who predominately serve local Latinx communities in each county. After establishing these partnerships, we provided each county with a report of site proposals from the FLP optimization algorithm. Final sites were selected in collaboration with our community partners. These sites hosted a series of SARS-CoV-2 testing events where the number of Latinx participants were recorded. We analyzed this observational data with a multi-level linear model to understand the effects of our optimization metric on overall participant turnout. We provide details of each step in the following sections.