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Puerto Rico enacted strict Covid measures. It paid off, and it s a lesson for the mainland. Nicole Acevedo © Provided by NBC News Janny Rodriguez, 47, a community leader in the neighborhood of Barreal in Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, is an operations supervisor at an asphalt plant. During the height of the pandemic last March, he couldn t stop working, since he s one of a few workers tasked with maintaining the composite material liquid. The father of three was worried about potentially exposing his oldest son to the virus, since he suffers from a lung condition, or his elderly mother who lives next door to him. After all, the World Health Organization had just declared Covid-19 a pandemic.

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