Quality of patient decision aids to support the public making COVID-19 decisions: An online environmental scan

•The COVID-19 pandemic caused challenges for people facing healthcare decisions.•New healthcare decisions emerged and decision making was challenged by uncertainty and limited quality of health information.•Patient Decision Aids (DAs) are effective tools for supporting healthcare decisions.•Our environmental scan identified 12 online publicly accessible COVID-19 DAs.•DAs mostly many criteria for minimizing biased decisions and understandability, but poor for actionability.