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. 2020 Aug;81(2):318-356.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.05.001. Epub 2020 May 8.

Rethinking pandemic preparation: Global Health Security Index (GHSI) is predictive of COVID-19 burden, but in the opposite direction

Tess Aitken  1 , Ken Lee Chin  2 , Danny Liew  1 , Richard Ofori-Asenso  3
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Rethinking pandemic preparation: Global Health Security Index (GHSI) is predictive of COVID-19 burden, but in the opposite direction

Tess Aitken et al. J Infect. 2020 Aug.
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Scatter plot of showing unadjusted correlation between GHSI and testing rate (A), COVID-19 cases (B) and deaths (C) per million people per day.
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