Table 2. Selected characteristics of the Field Epidemiology Training Programs that responded to surveys about COVID-19 response, 2020–2021*.
| WHO regional office | This study |
Survey 1† |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. reporting country programs (no. invited) | Median age of program, y (range) | Median days since first reported COVID-19 case in country (range)‡ | No. reporting country programs (no. invited) | Median age of program, y (range) | Median days since first reported COVID-19 case in country (range)‡ | ||
| Africa | 11 (30) | 11 (3–28) | 405 (322–491) | 24 (27) | 8 (2–27) | 19 (3–35) | |
| Eastern Mediterranean | 7 (12) | 15 (0–32) | 414 (376–508) | 9 (11) | 10 (1–31) | 33 (14–51) | |
| Europe | 4 (9) | 9 (3–10) | 446 (411–498) | 6 (9) | 11 (2–25) | 47 (23–52) | |
| Americas | 5 (21) | 20 (10–20) | 340 (330–399) | 15 (22) | 19 (3–69) | 27 (11–74) | |
| Southeast Asia | 1 (6) | 20 (20–20) | 448 (448–448) | 5 (7) | 19 (2–40) | 34 (16–74) | |
| Western Pacific |
4 (14) |
11 (10–20) |
425 (407–565) |
|
6 (12) |
18 (9–36) |
73 (56–105) |
| All programs | 32 (92) | 11 (0–32) | 412 (322–565) | 65 (88) | 11 (1- 69) | 25 (3–105) | |
*One regional program in Europe and 1 in the Americas were excluded from calculation of days to survey response since first COVID-19 case was reported. Refer to Table 1 for numbers in each region by survey. †Survey 1, Hu et al. (10). ‡Regional programs serving multiple countries and four programs (Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and Yemen) that responded to the survey before the first COVID-19 case was reported in their country were not included in the calculation of days to survey response since first COVID-19 case was reported