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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.

Lockdown policies are thought to reflect the scientific consensus. But how do we measure that consensus? Daniele Fanelli (LSE) set up a site that enables academics to anonymously give their views on the ‘focused protection’ model endorsed by the ‘Great Barrington Declaration’, and found some striking differences between both countries and genders.

What characteristics do the EU regions hardest hit by COVID-19 share? Nikos Kapitsinis (Cardiff Business School) looks at the factors – from age and health spending to pollution levels – that appear to play a part.

Young people are paying a high price for the efforts to control COVID-19. But, argues Sid Mohasseb (University of Southern California), their experience of the pandemic puts them in a strong position to thrive in its aftermath – if older generations enable them to do so.

For many people, abortion and contraception were already hard to obtain. The effect of lockdowns and overstretched health systems has exposed the structural violence that shapes their experiences, write Rishita Nandagiri, Ernestina Coast, and Joe Strong (LSE).

Our reliance on internet technologies increased as the COVID-19 pandemic progressed and with it concerns from parents, teachers, and governments that our digitally-mediated lives might have detrimental effects on children’s mental health and wellbeing. In a contribution for Common Sense’s report Tweens, Teens, Tech, and Mental Health, Sonia Livingstone explains why we need to move beyond ... Continued

SAGE uses a set of assumptions called the ‘reasonable worst-case scenario’ in its pandemic planning. Jonathan Birch (LSE) looks at the group’s minutes and documents from early 2020 and argues that over-reliance on these assumptions led to costly delays.

Emmeline Taylor reports how attacks against shop workers have increased during the COVID-19 crisis, exacerbating an already problematic situation. Such incidents are often dismissed as ‘business crimes’ and therefore somehow victimless, rendering a change in the law necessary.

The young and the old are by far the most harmed by COVID-19 policies, says Paul Dolan (LSE). They tend to have a stronger preference for quality over quantity of life than middle-aged people, who have been the ones making the decisions.

COVID-19 spreads fast in slums, writes Nikhil Deb (Murray State University). They should be the focus of the efforts to tackle the disease in the Global South, and not given up as a lost cause.