When LSE COVID-19 launched in late April, cases were falling in the UK and the government was thinking about how to begin to ease lockdown. A few days before Christmas, much of the country was again in some degree of lockdown and official cases had reached record levels. How can we do better? Editor Ros Taylor (LSE) picks some of the highlights of our coverage.

1. We need a one-year COVID strategy whose core values will endure

Timothy Besley and Nicholas Stern

Timothy Besley and Nicholas Stern | Values, realities and choices: developing a lasting COVID strategy

2. Lessons from 1918: talking about death

LSE International Relations

Britain avoids talking about COVID-19 deaths. That’s a mistake

3. Will cities survive as we know them?

Henry Overman and Max Nathan

Will coronavirus cause a big city exodus?

4. How can we treat the elderly better?

Nicholas Barr and Howard Glennester

Nicholas Barr & Howard Glennerster | Life after COVID-19: start planning now

5. How do we depict a microscopic bundle of proteins that transformed the world?

Sria Chatterjee

Making the invisible visible: how we depict COVID-19

6. Have you been bike shedding? How hybrid working changes our behaviour

The BE-Inclusive Group, LSE

Hybrid working: an LSE dictionary of behavioural biases

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