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Characterizing the impact of incorporating spatially aggregated human mobility data into infectious disease models

2025-11-28 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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Models of infectious disease dynamics should align the spatial scale of mobility data to the scale of travel relevant to infer disease introduction events and subsequent local transmission. Despite this, the biases of spatially aggregating mobility data, which are more commonly available, on model inferences are rarely explored. Here, we examine the sensitivity of infectious disease modeling results to different spatial scales of human mobility by integrating multiscale mobility data from Sri L...

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