Another one of the new lab rats, a woman about the same age as Chad, augmented this. “We hear almost two hundred thousand people are already projected to die.” Dash looked at them with consternation. “We bypassed almost every tenet of medical testing for the rejuvenation therapy because we could run our tests on people who were already dying. You are not.” Chad waved his hand at the people behind him. “But our families might as well be dying. Most of us are Americans. If we can help protect them, we will.” Dash objected. “We are not going to try this on perfectly healthy people as the first thing. For one thing, when we first test the live attenuated virus, we could actually give you Blue Rubola.” But the more she thought about it, the fewer alternative ideas she had. Velma intervened,

