For more than a decade the seven doctors had come together each time a biological threat presented itself. MERS, Ebola, Zika: they’d all been involved in each of those outbreaks, one way or another, behind the scenes. In flurries of phone calls and emails, they’d seek to figure out what was going on, and what each might do to influence the situation and save lives. They might be mistaken for a secret society—if the person at the center were not so insistently happy to share his thoughts with anyone who asked. They’d even been given a name: Wolverines. A former Bush White House colleague had
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