Posted on 07/11/2022 1:38:00 PM PDT by lightman
Newly obtained emails confirm that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) changed its definition for both “vaccine” and “vaccinated” because people were pointing out that definitions did not seem to apply to the COVID-19 vaccines.
“The definition of vaccine we have posted is problematic and people are using it to claim the COVID-19 vaccine is not a vaccine based on our own definition,” Alycia Downs, a CDC official, wrote in an email on Aug. 25, 2021, to a colleague.
The definition is located on a page called Immunization Basics.
“Vaccine” was defined since at least 2011 by the CDC as a product that triggers immunity, according to archived versions of the page. Vaccination was described as an injection that prevents a disease. But a flood of inquiries on the definitions was triggered by the fact that the COVID-19 vaccines have been increasingly ineffective against infection by the virus that causes COVID-19, the emails show.
“Our question is how is the CDC and the rest of the world allowed to call the shot a vaccination when it doesn’t even meet your own definition,” one person wrote to the CDC. “Right-wing covid-19 pandemic deniers are using your ‘vaccine’ definition to argue that mRNA vaccines are not vaccines,” another said.
Both the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines are built on messenger RNA technology. They are two of the three COVID-19 vaccines available in the United States.
Downs and two colleagues, Allison Michelle Fisher, Cynthia Jorgensen, Valerie Morelli, and Andrew, no last name given, worked on changing the definitions for “vaccine” and “vaccination,” according to the emails.
The changes were pushed through on Aug. 31, 2021, and Sept. 1, 2021, respectively.
Changing Definitions
“Vaccine” used to be defined as: “A product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but can also be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose.” It is now defined as “A preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases. Vaccines are usually administered through needle injections, but some can be administered by mouth or sprayed into the nose.”
“Vaccination” was changed from “The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease” to “The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce protection from a specific disease.”
Attorney Travis Miller obtained some of the missives in 2021 and published screenshots of them. At the time, the CDC did not dispute their authenticity. The Epoch Times has obtained the emails, and additional messages concerning the changes, and has published all 67 pages of them.
The batch of emails, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, also shows that Andrew, no last name given, a CDC employee on the agency’s Vaccine Task Force, boosted a Washington Post article that downplayed criticism of the change.
“I’ve only seen a couple of inquiries about the change to this page. I think the WaPo article explains the problem well—that people are misinterpreting ‘immunity’ to mean 100% protection,” Andrew wrote.
“Thank you, Andrew! I really appreciate your response,” Downs replied.
A CDC spokesperson has told The Epoch Times that the “slight changes in wording” haven’t altered “the overall definition,” of “vaccine,” adding, “The previous definition at Immunization Basics | CDC could be interpreted to mean that vaccines were 100% effective, which has never been the case for any vaccine, so the current definition is more transparent, and also describes the ways in which vaccines can be administered.”
Some other portions of the CDC website still say COVID-19 vaccines confer immunity. One page, for instance, says that “Getting a COVID-19 vaccination is a safer and more dependable way to build immunity to COVID-19 than getting sick with COVID-19.”
I have changed the definition of "fully vaccinated" and now I am fully vaccinated.
“The definition of vaccine we have posted is problematic and people are using it to claim the COVID-19 vaccine is not a vaccine based on our own definition,” Alycia Downs, a CDC official, wrote in an email on Aug. 25, 2021, to a colleague.
It’s a vaccine, it’s just ineffective. Doesn’t work.
So do we still have a ventilator shortage?
Didn’t think so. COVID is nothing to sneeze at, pun carefully crafted, but it’s no longer the killer disease it was first made out to be.
So is the flu now its own vacine? Hold still while I cough into your face.
“I’ve only seen a couple of inquiries about the change to this page. I think the WaPo article explains the problem well—that people are misinterpreting ‘immunity’ to mean 100% protection,” Andrew wrote.
The definition of "immunity" has been changed to mean: "Died of bloodclots or stage 4 cancer".
It’s a experimental drug..
The terms are bogus anyhow.
The COVID vaccines are not vaccines, at all.
According to the new definition: taking Vitamin D ‘by mouth’ qualifies as being vaccinated against COVID-19. Drinking milk sounds like a good alternative. ‘You can’t fire me... I am vaccinated against COVID, I had a glass of milk this morning.’
They should have refined the definition in response to the claims by the anti-vaxers. Instead they gutted it, making it so expansive as to be meaningless.
Deception is the way of these humans.
No vaccine can work with a virus which mutated frequently.
I just heard people in Europe are sick with a new variant. Germany has highest number of patients in ICU since year ago.
when all-out propaganda fails, then change the meaning of the words ...
And, if Germany’s sky high vaccination rate figure is accurate, most, if not all, of the patients in its ICUs are vaxxed.
so we can change it back now... right???
I actually have that shirt. However, I think that people are so dumb, they think I’m supporting the clot shot
Then they laughed in your face when they stated that they are never going to manufacture the FDA approved “vaccine”, but will continue with the experimental version to keep the liability protection.
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