To be fair, when vaccines appeared on the scene, prevention was pretty high until Delta put paid to that and breakthrough infections hit the roof.
But having said that, it is still in use to stimulate our body's immune response to COVID. So by definition it is still a vaccine.
Definitions. Sigh. Used to be that the term vaccine also meant that it confers immunity. Guess it doesn't now.
Medical Practitioners already have a tough time addressing anti-vaxxers. Now this.
I think they should have different types of vaccination classifications then. Those that do confer immunity and prevent further spread might be called Class 1 vaccine. Those that confer antibodies to help reduce severity of illness but do not prevent further infection can be called Class 2 Vaccine etc.
Differentiate please.
I am glad that I no longer deal with these things anymore. But I can tell that this will be a problem in the future.
There are many biases and personal vested interests when people talk about this topic. Because it involves reopening the economy. Especially implications for travel and tourism industry.
Personally I too wish to see a fully reopened world just like most of us.
Unfortunately, there are other issues at play too. Honesty and integrity is one.
Who is to say there wont be another variant now that the virus pool has grown exponentially larger. Sure patients are not getting so sick from delta now with the immunotherapy/vaccine treatment. But you have a lot of this virus endemic in the population all around the world both vaxxed and unvaxxed.
That's a melting pot. Ask any infectious disease specialist or epidemiologist. That's how you create new mutations.
How did the delta variant come about?
I totally agree that we are better off now than we were before having the covid "vaccines" and I still support this treatment because it has shown benefits. But I don't appreciate the
possibility that we were lied to about all of its effects. Time will tell of course with regards to safety from future adverse events. From my understanding it should not. However again from my understanding when a drug maker sells something called a VACCINE I don't go telling patients the VACCINE they take will make them have a less significant illness when they catch it and they can still catch it and pass it to others. I simply dont. Vaccines were always something we said was a disease prevention tool. Prevents the vaccinated from getting the virus and thus they stop the chain of infection to others.
But if one defines a vaccine as merely something that causes an immune response to create antibodies against a virus or organism.......WHO decides the definition?