Authors' reply to the discussion of 'Efficient Bayesian Inference of Instantaneous Reproduction Numbers at Fine Spatial Scales, with an Application to Mapping and Nowcasting the Covid‐19 Epidemic in British Local Authorities' by Teh et al. in Session 2 of the Royal Statistical Society's Special Topic Meeting on COVID‐19 transmission: 11 June 2021. (21st November 2022) - Teh, Yee Whye; Elesedy, Bryn; He, Bobby; Hutchinson, Michael; Zaidi, Sheheryar; Bhoopchand, Avishkar; Paquet, Ulrich; Tomasev, Ne‐nad; Read, Jonathan; Diggle, Peter J.