[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

King takes a detour from the main characters and spends a whole chapter describing how a lot of the people who survive the plague die anyway because they don't adapt to the post-civilization environment.

When I was reading it a few years ago, I mentally tabbed that chapter as "Darwin's Follies."

[Mr. Silverback]

Perversely, it's my favorite chapter in the whole book. The scariest chapter in the whole book is the one where he follows the transmission of the disease from one person to another and another...the plague section of the book is several times scarier than the rest of it, but it is a great novel.