@metal-brain said
A vaccine specifically has to stimulate both an immunity within the person receiving it, but it also has to disrupt transmission.
mRNA vaccines don't do that.
It is a treatment but if it was discussed as a treatment, it would not get the sympathetic ear of public health authorities, because then people would say “What other treatments are there"?
https://swprs.org/merck-claim-exposing-big-pharma-lobbyists/
A) See the CDC definition above:
B) You are dead wrong to make the claim that mRNA vaccines don't disrupt transmission. While the evidence isn't conclusive
yet,:
"The study is part of a growing body of evidence suggesting that the vaccines not only reduce the risk of getting seriously ill with COVID-19, but can prevent catching the virus in the first place.
“If you can’t get infected, you can’t infect anyone else, which means the vaccines can reduce transmission as well as the disease,” says Marm Kilpatrick, an infectious diseases researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the study."
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-covid-vaccine-moderna-pfizer-transmission-disease