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
Global Health Security Index (GHSI) and Joint External Evaluation (JEE) are two well-known health security and related capabilities indices. We hypothesized that countries with higher GHSI or JEE scores would have detected their first case earlier, and would experience lower mortality outcome compared to countries with lower scores. We evaluated the effectiveness of GHSI and JEE in predicting countries’ COVID-19 detection response times and mortality outcome (deaths/million).