id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-356348-e7hefkd3 Kim, Inho KCDC Risk Assessments on the Initial Phase of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Korea 2020-04-17 .txt text/plain 2045 112 55 OBJECTIVES: This study aims to evaluate the risk assessments of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) in the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), from the point of detection to the provision of basic information to the relevant public health authorities. METHODS: To estimate the overall risk of specific public health events, probability, and impact at the country-level were evaluated using available information. To estimate the overall risk of specific public health events, probability, and impact at the country-level were evaluated using the available information. The emergence of COVID-19, which started as clusters of pneumonia with unknown etiology in China at the end of 2019, was unique and thus, a good example for KCDC to conduct a series of risk assessments to evaluate the potential risk of importation, transmission, and the impact at the country-level. The risk of importation and transmission were evaluated separately as COVID-19 was a newly identified pathogen where information about the coronavirus was limited. ./cache/cord-356348-e7hefkd3.txt ./txt/cord-356348-e7hefkd3.txt