To fit its purposes of defining the new generation of “vaccines” (more appropriately, gene therapies), the CDC has quietly updated its vaccination basics page to redefine a vaccine and vaccination as of September 1, 2021.
Historically, vaccines have included a weakened or inactivated germ to trigger an immune response to the virus being targeted. Britannica defines a vaccine as a “suspension of weakened, killed, or fragmented microorganisms or toxins or of antibodies or lymphocytes that is administered primarily to prevent disease. A vaccine can confer active immunity against a specific harmful agent by stimulating the immune system to attack the agent.”
The effect of a vaccine changed recently as the COVID-19 mRNA versions do not use the live virus that causes the disease. Instead, they attempt to “teach” our cells how to make a protein (the infamous “spike protein”) that triggers an immune response inside the bodies. That immune response, which produces antibodies, is supposed to protect the receivers from getting infected if the real virus enters their bodies.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has replaced the word immunity with protection in its definition of vaccination and removed it altogether from the vaccine definition.
|Term||July 10, 2012||August 26, 2021||September 2, 2021|
|Vaccine||A product that produces immunity therefore protecting the body from the disease||A product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease||A preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases [no reference to immunity]|
|Vaccination||Injection of a killed or weakened infectious organism in order to prevent the disease||The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease||The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce protection from a specific disease [no reference to immunity]|