{
  "id": 28304,
  "title": "Assessing spatial transmission risk of respiratory infectious diseases across cities of different socioeconomic tiers in China: A modelling study",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/20/assessing-spatial-transmission-risk-of-respiratory-infectious",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-07-20T14:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PLOS Medicine",
    "slug": "plos-medicine",
    "url": "https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1005172"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "by Wenjie Li, Wei Yang, Yang Liu, Ye Yao Background Understanding how respiratory infectious diseases spread across cities of different socioeconomic tiers is crucial for regionally targeted interventions. However, most spatial prediction frameworks neglect the combined influence of urban hierarchy and human mobility in shaping transmission risk. Methods and findings We integrated large-scale…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}