id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-325453-5eskj42c Haider, Najmul The Global Health Security index and Joint External Evaluation score for health preparedness are not correlated with countries' COVID-19 detection response time and mortality outcome 2020-09-07 .txt text/plain 5704 276 52 Higher risk of importation of COVID-19 from China for a given country was negatively correlated with the time taken to detect the first case in that country (adjusted R(2) = 0.63–0.66), while the GHSI and JEE had minimal predictive value. Multiple linear regression analysis was utilised to assess the amount of variation in either the time to detection of the first case that can be explained by the GHSI and JEE score and the importation risk among countries reporting cases by 20th February 2020. Our study further confirms that the health preparedness indices used either in the GHSI or JEE had low predictive value in terms of (i) number of cases detected in the country until 20th February 2020 when most cases were imported from China and (ii) mortality outcome (deaths/million) until either 11th March or 1st July 2020. ./cache/cord-325453-5eskj42c.txt ./txt/cord-325453-5eskj42c.txt