They’re mRNA signaling, delivered in a shot. They contain no live, dead, or partial pathogen. Instead, they are gene signals to your body to deliver data that can help the body fight a pathogen that it has never yet encountered in live, dead, or partial form.
I’m not saying they aren’t useful. I’m not saying they can’t provide equivalent benefits to an actual vaccine. I’m not saying it won’t save someone’s life against a virus. It’s just technically not a vaccine.
I think the JJ one is a vaccine. Not sure about Sinovax or Sputnik, but they’re probably vaccines too.
Yeah I’m aware of what it does. Just interesting how you frame it. For all practical purposes, a vaccine being something that triggers an immune response to develop an immunity is a perfectly fine definition. If you’re going to say that the mRNA shots aren’t vaccines for all intents and purposes because they don’t have the pathogen, then that’s peak pedantic and pointless.
If from now on on Airwarriors somebody says “vaccines” and they mean both the mRNA and traditional ones, please do everyone a favor and don’t “aCtUaLlY” them. There’s no point. The person is not trying to convey the message of a pathogen or not, they’re conveying a message of artificial immunity.