So Many Slow Turners

[Arcane Tremere]

After bite care might improve your chances, Most of the time we have people cutting off limbs to stop the blood from getting to new areas of the body. (in other works). Again this would be better answered by how fast an infection spreads in the body carried by the blood.

I am not sure about the cold as it was December when Boulder fell, but it would allow for some infectee to make it to the refugees.

...additional

I just remember in Red Winter part 2 a soldier turns while in the snow almost immediately after being infected. So there must be something else besides the cold.