Sept 1.
"Vaccination ... to produce protection..."
"Immunity ... protection from an infectious disease.....you can be exposed to it without becoming infected."
I suppose that would mean that a vaccination would produce protectiion, which is referred to as immunity, which means infection will not occur.
Oh, ok.
And good luck finding a person or two who believes the flu vaccine is 100% effective.
Nice try, CDC spokesperson.
The conspiracy theory whack-a-mole saga continues…
Vaccine skeptics claim a new CDC gotcha moment — but they haven’t got muchhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/09/vaccine-skeptics-claim-new-cdc-gotcha-moment-they-havent-got-much/“From the start of the vaccination campaigns, critics have searched long and hard for evidence that the vaccines don’t work as well as they were supposed to. This has sometimes involved suggesting that anything less than 100 percent efficacy means they don’t work.”
“In truth, though, medical experts have long said that no vaccine, including the coronavirus vaccines, is 100 percent effective. If “immunity” connotes complete protection, then no vaccine actually provides it.”
“Part of the reason people seem to believe immunity means 100 percent protection stems from how it’s understood in other contexts. Legally speaking, immunity from things like prosecution means you can’t be prosecuted, full stop. But in a medical contexts, it’s often used as a synonym for a specific type of protection — i.e. the same word the CDC now uses.”
“The Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary defines immunity as ‘a condition of being able to resist a particular disease.’ Taber’s Medical Dictionary defines it as, ‘Protection from diseases, [especially] from infectious diseases.’ Harvard’s medical dictionary defines it as, ‘The body’s ability to resist infection and disease.’ The Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary echoes all of them, saying immunity is ‘the body’s ability to resist infection.’”
“The data clearly shows the coronavirus vaccines meet these definitions of providing immunity, as do other vaccines with less than 100 percent efficacy. Those include the flu vaccines, whose efficacy is generally around 40 percent. The flu vaccines are still vaccines and still provide immunity — just not complete immunity.”
“The irony of all of this is that the theories about what the [CDC] change really means actually reinforce the idea that it’s probably better to use “protection” than “immunity” — given that people don’t seem to understand what 'immunity' actually means.”
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