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This paper examines how and why expert organizations arrive at divergent interpretations of the same risk assessments, and what such divergence means for risk management strategies. Using Norway's early COVID\u201019 response as a qualitative case, the study analyzes the disagreement between national health authorities over suppression versus mitigation strategies. Data consist of interviews with key decision\u2010makers and senior analysts, supplemented by extensive interview material and reports from the Norwegian Corona Commission, and are analyzed using thematic analysis. The findings show that the disagreement did not primarily stem from different estimates of epidemiological risk, but from divergent interpretations of what those estimates implied: where the main consequences of the pandemic would concentrate, and whether existing health\u2010system capacities could control the situation. To explain this, the paper introduces the concepts of (1) risk epicenter, where the risk is interpreted to concentrate and (2) risk controllability, the assessed institutional capacity to control it. Together, these constitute a process termed risk calibration, through which technical risk assessments are socially and institutionally interpreted. The contribution is a two\u2010dimensional framework for analyzing the structure of divergent interpretations during the early phase of novel risk events. 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