The Last of Us: Perspectives from an epidemiologist and a plant scientist

The hit TV show The Last of Us is taking the world by storm. It’s about a pandemic, but a very different one from the what we are experiencing now. It’s about a fungus that evolves to infect humans, and then mushroom heads run at exorbitant speeds trying to infect other humans.

I jumped on the bandwagon. In fact, I started watching with my friend and aut…