Despite its high vaccination rate and low death rate, Portugal hasn't thrown COVID caution to the winds. Portugal seems prepared to live with COVID at low levels. In that it differs from the U.S., which seems destined to live with COVID at relatively high levels. It's particularly distressing to see rural death rates in the U.S. rising even as the nation's overall death rate is falling. If the world must learn to live with COVID, as many experts think, Portugal's way of living with it offers a worthy model.

Source: New York Times November 01, 2021 15:15 UTC