Since leaving Kansas City Joel and Ellie have either been trucking through unpopulated wilderness or settlements that would have long ago removed whatever zombie threat there was in the area, so it makes sense they haven't run into any infected. The game was actually pretty much the same way, you fought a ton of infected in and around Boston, in and around Pittsburgh (KC in the show), but once you reached Tommy almost all the following combat was against humans. The only place with infected was in the empty university, and that's the one part of the show where it really felt rushed. Would have been nice if they had expanded that episode a bit and showed a pocket of infected, further explaining why the Fireflies left
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