Will Virtual Teaching Continue After the COVID-19 Pandemic?

After reading the article published recently in your journal one can understand how a dramatic event such as the COVID-19 pandemic can shape the future of communities and also how important it is to learn from it.1 Medical schools, which used to be adamant about recording classes when facing a shutdown in order to keep students safe, managed to transform their curriculum and adjust it towards learning through 'virtual classes'.2 I believe this new setting might improve class attendance due to the easiness of access and also because it helps students to overcome some shyness in asking questions in front of their colleagues.Students are now able to pose questions Letter to the Editor about the Article "Excess Mortality Estimation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Preliminary Data from Portugal https://