Three weeks later, it reached the New York Times bestseller list for hardback nonfiction. Wheelan’s most recent book, Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data, was released by W.W. He joined the Dartmouth faculty fulltime in June of 2012. China senses blood and a geopolitical victory, presenting a laundry list of demands that ranges from complete domination of the South China Sea to additional parking spaces at the UN, while India claims it can save the day for the U.S.Ĭharles Wheelan is a senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College. Some Americans will get the life-saving drug and others will not, and nations with their own supply soon offer aid-but for a price. Little goes according to plan during the three weeks necessary to replenish the stocks of Dormigen. Working together, just barely, are a savvy but preoccupied president a Speaker more interested in jockeying for position-and a potential presidential bid-than attending to the minutiae of disease control a patriotic majority leader unable to differentiate a virus from a bacterium a strategist with brilliant analytical abilities but abominable people skills and, improbably, our narrator, a low-level scientist with the National Institutes of Health who happens to be the world’s leading expert in lurking viruses.

Set in the near future, The Rationing centers around a White House struggling to quell the crisis-and control the narrative. That ordinarily wouldn’t lead to catastrophe, thanks to modern medicine, but there’s just one problem: the government supply of Dormigen, the silver bullet of pharmaceuticals, has been depleted just as demand begins to spike. America is in trouble-at the mercy of a puzzling pathogen.

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