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If you put seven Citium members in a room and asked them to name the most likely extinction-level event in humanity’s future, you might get seven different answers: robotics, artificial intelligence, pandemics, climate change, solar events, asteroid impacts, or alien invasion.
They missed a critical one... Over-population and the lack of food.
Day 12 5,600,000,000 Infected 6,000,000 Dead
Riots had broken out in San Antonio; troops were being sent from Austin, and the CDC was routing additional medical staff with proper training.
Day 13 5,900,000,000 Infected 9,000,000 Dead
Day 14 6,100,000,000 Infected 18,000,000 Dead
“A brush with death changes a person. For good people, it changes them for the better, makes them more thankful—and dedicated to the things that matter.
It was so bizarre—all her teenage years squeezed into this moment.
Most vaccines were simply a form of the actual virus they provided immunity for. The vaccines for measles, mumps, rubella, oral polio, chicken pox, and shingles were weakened forms of the target viruses. The weakened forms reproduced poorly inside the body, allowing the immune system time to study and attack them. The body eventually manufactured antibodies, then committed the formula for those effective antibodies to memory—so that when the real virus appeared, the immune system could neutralize it quickly.
Another set of vaccines worked via a chemical process that inactivated the virus so it couldn’t replicate inside the body. The vaccines for polio, hepatitis A, influenza, and rabies worked that way. Inactivated vaccines had no chance of causing even a mild form of the disease they were inoculating against, making them ideal for anyone with a weakened immune system.
Day 20 Final Death Toll: 31,000,000
