Students walk past a banner promoting the first presidential debate to be held at the University of Massachusetts–Boston, in Boston, Mass., on Oct. 3, 2000. Darren McCollester/Newsmakers
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced on Feb. 1 the state’s first confirmed case of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. The patient, a student from the University of Massachusetts–Boston (UMass Boston), had returned just days earlier from Wuhan, ground zero of the outbreak in China.
