The CDC Needed to Change the Definition of Vaccine to Accommodate the C-19 Shots

The CDC has had to change the definition of vaccine twice in the past 8 years. Prior to 2015, the term required little or no tinkering.

Vaccination is a special category of pharmaceuticals that also needed some fancy lexicography revision in the 1980s to help it bypass the typical vigorous testing required for drug approvals. Vaccines are not considered drugs but are instead called biologics.

With the release of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, the alternative media and social media raised alarm that these novel shots were not vaccines but gene therapies, a term that also falls under biologics more broadly but is not considered vaccine-producing immunity. In the video below, the CEO of Bayer states very frankly that the mRNA vaccines are indeed gene therapies.

Using the Wayback Machine Internet Archive, we can read the CDC’s past definitions that didn’t quite jive with the mass vaccination products they were unveiling. One might also note that the public’s general expectation of protection from a vaccine was measured over many years, usually at least a decade before a booster needed to be administered, but with the COVID-19 shots, people learned that efficacy waned in a number of weeks and they would need a booster multiple times a year or they could run the risk of falling into immunosuppression or antibody-dependent enhancement of the disease they are trying to protect against.