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Putting Ellie's own curiosity about potential vaccines/cures aside, how would we as viewers envision that working?
The big immunity angle in the games relates to the airborne spores. That walking into a room could literally kill you via infection before you even knew you were breathing them in.
They took that out of the show so I always wonder what they think they are curing/preventing?
These monsters are ripping limbs off and biting chunks out of people's bodies. That the fungus takes control of the dead body afterwards is largely irrelevant when it comes to a vaccine.
So what are we meant to think the doctor was trying to create in the show's universe?
Ellie's immunity and that it could save humanity is a big deal. Huge. As big as it gets in a show.
But it doesn't really enter her thoughts. She doesn't even consider her own community with her actions. She remains a bratty teenage girl that does stupid stuff that puts people around her at risk. Joel's death was great drama but it leaves a vacuum of someone who saw the bigger picture and was conflcted by his personal feelings for her. And now the show lacks their father daughter dynamic.
I can't comment on the game but the show has been consistent that you get infected by a bite or a scratch. I don't think it brings dead people back to life like in the Walking Dead. Abby's father was planning to operate on Ellie's brain that would have killed her. It's good for drama but not realistic how science would work. How about some blood tests? A vaccine or antifungal medications are possible but you don't kill your only immune subject.