A time-varying reproduction number describes transmission at a specified calendar time while allowing transmission conditions to change during an epidemic.
The instantaneous reproduction number freezes the transmission conditions at calendar time and counts the expected secondary infections produced over a complete infectious lifetime under those conditions.
The case reproduction number is the expected number of secondary infections actually generated by a person infected at time , allowing transmission conditions to change during that person's infectious lifetime.

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