Emails Confirm Why CDC Changed Definitions of Vaccine, Vaccinated

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.

“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.

“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.

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 had smallpox vaccine in elementary school, probably at age 7. I caught smallpox infection 2 years later. Which proves my point that no vaccine creates virus proof filter in respiratory track to prevent infection. But obviously the 30%+ mortality rate smallpox was not able to kill me since I am still healthy 73 years after recovery.

It’s very interesting.

You seem to think you have a knowledge or expertise of medicine or biology when your comments are empty recitations of meaningless generalizations one hears.

Your idea that the vaccines do not work because of active mutation taking place is not even something anyone claims.

Let me ask you how large is the spike protein and how many potential antigenic determinants are there?

The jab is ... a very small packet of technology inserted into the human system to activate the cell to become a pathogenetic spike protein manufacturing site

Self replicating nano particles, I've read. If this high tech snake oil were actually a beneficial achievement of the pharmaceutical industry, they wouldn't want to call it such a mundane thing as a "vaccine", they'd call it something different: New and innovative, a revolution in medicine. Not your father's "vaccine". A whole new approach to therapeutics.

But instead, their huge research investment has only produced something that has limited & short term effectiveness, and many dangerous & deadly side effects, the degree of which would have been intolerable to uncompromised regulatory agencies.

The only way they can sell it is through deception and mandates. So they grab onto the coattails of something the public trusts: "vaccines". From there, they "buy" a government sanction for funding, and mandates to push this poorly reviewed witches brew on an unsuspecting public.

The sales force at Pfizer, Moderna, and others, and the CDC, the NIH, the FDA, and more, say "we're all in this together". Yup, that's where the money changes hands.

July 2022

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4077691/posts

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.