Commentary on the use of the reproduction number R during the COVID-19 pandemic

Carolin Vegvari, Sam Abbott, Frank Ball, Ellen Brooks-Pollock, Robert Challen, Benjamin S. Collyer, Ciara Dangerfield, Julia R. Gog, Katelyn M. Gostic, Jane M. Heffernan, T. Déirdre Hollingsworth, Valerie Isham, Eben Kenah, Denis Mollison, Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths, Lorenzo Pellis, Michael G. Roberts, Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba, Robin N. Thompson, Pieter Trapman