INTRODUCTION

Reality

March 9, 2020.

I am on a plane, flying back to Boston early from a long-planned family vacation in Utah. While the rest of my family has been skiing, I’ve spent the past three days on the phone with my team in the governor’s office and with public health experts. The crowds in Park City looked exactly as they have every time we’ve come here before: large, loud, and happy. Am I doing the right thing by flying home on my own and leaving my family to mix and mingle with the tens of thousands of folks from all over the place who are vacationing in Utah?

The state’s first Covid-19 case presented in a college student who returned to Massachusetts from Wuhan, China, after spending the holidays with his family. His was the eighth ...

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