The kobayashi maru event.

[Darkstar82]

This is just unfair, and a little illogical.

Two thirds of colony came down with a mix of malaria and plague, they have all been innoculated but are very weakened, many unconscious, then as I progress into treating them, everyone is given "flu" which takes out my remaining medical staff. Given most of the colony is bed ridden in warm clean rooms I don't understand how they got flu but that's rimworld for you.

[Seygas_theatear]

Sometimes you have to pick winners and losers.  Best advice is put your winners in the best hospital beds.

[b0rsuk]

Put the rest into ancient cryosleep caskets, wait until the winners get healed, pull the rest out of caskets, heal the rest.

Taught by the experience, buy penoxyline or neurotramine.

[Darkstar82]

Sometimes you have to pick winners and losers.  Best advice is put your winners in the best hospital beds.

grim isn't it 

[Shurp]

Or you can do what James T Kirk did.

/devmode/

[blub01]

apparently, if you only give part of your colonists penoxyline, they are much, much less likely to get a disease, so giving your doctor even just 6 penoxyline yearly makes it (apparently) quite unlikely for them to get sick.

[Bozobub]

Given most of the colony is bed ridden in warm clean rooms I don't understand how they got flu but that's rimworld for you.

That's why.  Diseases are simply very easy to transmit when stuck indoors, in close proximity, in a mild environment, especially airborne ones like influenza; this is exactly why hospitals are actually a GREAT place to catch an infectious disease.  You will find that the Inuit/Aleut/other far North American tribes tend to have ZERO colds and flus, because it's simply too cold for the viruses involved to survive readily near/above the Arctic Circle.

That said, in ice biomes, cold/flu/plague/etc. should be quite rare, so "realism, schmealism" ^^' ...