The Final of Us: Can Ellie Infect Others?

This text accommodates spoilers for The Final of Us Half I and Half II

Ellie’s immunity to the Cordyceps an infection is a vital a part of The Final of Us recreation lore. In each the HBO collection and the video video games it’s primarily based on, Ellie is the one individual we all know of who doesn’t turn out to be contaminated after being bitten or uncovered to the Cordyceps in different methods. Within the last stage of The Final of Us Half 1, we study that Ellie nonetheless has the Cordyceps fungus inside her mind, it’s only a additional mutated model that’s basically benign in that it doesn’t trigger her to mutate. However because the Cordyceps fungus is technically nonetheless inside her, does that imply that Ellie can then infect others? 

Whereas zombie films like 28 Weeks Later have proven that even asymptomatic carriers of a lethal an infection can nonetheless cross it to others, The Final of Us Half II reveals us that this isn’t the case with Ellie. Although Ellie does chunk David whereas making an attempt to flee from him in The Final of Us Half I, he dies earlier than we are able to see if he turns into contaminated. It isn’t till years later that Ellie is in a position to determine that she isn’t contagious. In the course of the Half II flashback stage “discovering strings,” that seems throughout Ellie’s second day in Seattle, we are able to learn a journal entry the place a sixteen-year-old Ellie wrote about getting a tattoo to additional cowl the chunk on her arm, her first post-bite kiss with one other lady in Jackson, and the preliminary concern of infecting another person that adopted.

On this entry, Ellie says “I’ve simply had the worst/greatest day of my life! Cat was ending one other session on my arm after which climbed on prime of me and kissed me. I threw her off of me. I yelled at her. I assumed I contaminated her. I imply… I’m contaminated… kind of. I don’t know the way the fuck this shit transfers. What if she turns? What would I inform individuals? She’s bought household .I advised her we should always take a stroll. I lied and stated I’d by no means kissed anybody and that I used to be simply nervous. She was really candy about my freak out. We spent the day strolling and speaking. Then she got here to my place for a film. She fell asleep… I stayed up all evening watching her. On the lookout for indicators of an infection. The following morning she was tremendous. Nothing. I’m not contagious! And Cat likes me!!! What a fucking rollercoaster!!!!”