I’ll leave you and your new pal Birx to sort out what she meant. It looks like she was doing what most people do, make up something that sounds good and then run with it, the facts be damned.
“How does that comport with your knowledge of virology?”
Well I’m sure that from your own extensive training you know that vaccines teach your immune system to fight a particular pathogen. That’s what they have done since Edward Jenner used cowpox inoculations.
They aren’t a guarantee that you won’t get sick. Flu vaccines are only 40%-60% effective. Yet they are still vaccines.
You’re making unfounded assumptions about her intent. She said what she said. To say she meant otherwise is truly magical thinking. Your remarks about Birx obviously don’t address anything substantive. So, I will leave that there.
As for the COVID vaccines, those teach your immune system to respond to a PROTEIN, not a virus. If you can’t see the difference and understand the impact of that difference as compared with traditional vaccines then I have to assume your further comments to be equally irrelevant. Your understanding seems rudimentary at best.