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The Last of Us Science Adviser Says COVID Changed How We View Zombie Stories


Behavioral ecologist David Hughes, who consulted on the video game that inspired the hit TV show The Last of Us, speaks about how our experience with the COVID pandemic changed the way we relate to zombie fiction

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