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Volume 26, Number 7—July 2020
Research

Identifying Locations with Possible Undetected Imported Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Cases by Using Importation Predictions

Pablo Martinez De Salazar1, René Niehus1, Aimee Taylor1, Caroline O’Flaherty Buckee, and Marc LipsitchComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Surveillance capacity of locations with and without imported-and-reported cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, 2020*

Surveillance capacity No. locations
 Total
0 cases >1 case
High 35 14 49
Low 138 7 145
Total 173 21 194

*Aggregated case counts collected during January 20–February 4, 2020. Surveillance capacity reported by category 2, Early Detection and Reporting of Epidemics of Potential International Concern, of the Global Health Security Index (3). High surveillance capacity is defined as 1st quartile ranking of the GHS Index; low surveillance capacity are locations below the 1st quartile ranking of the GHS.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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