> Maybe wikipedia also changed it (did you check?)
Here's a link to the Wikipedia entry from 2017, same text: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vaccine&oldid=798...
Here's a link to the CDC definition from 2017: https://web.archive.org/web/20171203162427/https://www.cdc.g... ("Vaccine: A product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease.")
> It's all marketing at this point.
Definitions made prior to the pandemic would already fit the mRNA vaccines, therefore the claim that the definition was stretched for marketing/persuasion reasons don't really hold water.
> Not FDA approved in the US. "approval pending"
This FDA link claims Cominarty was approved in August 23 2021. The word "pending" is not found in this page.
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...
> These kind of drugs take years to develop. This stuff was done in a few months.
"The first human clinical trials using an mRNA vaccine against an infectious agent (rabies) began in 2013." (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRNA_vaccine)
Of course the actual individual version for COVID-19 is newer, but then again, so is any flu vaccine that is updated basically yearly. What matters is the age of the "vaccine platform".
> They skipped some steps in the process.
Citation needed?
Here's a link to the Wikipedia entry from 2017, same text: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vaccine&oldid=798...
Here's a link to the CDC definition from 2017: https://web.archive.org/web/20171203162427/https://www.cdc.g... ("Vaccine: A product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease.")
> It's all marketing at this point.
Definitions made prior to the pandemic would already fit the mRNA vaccines, therefore the claim that the definition was stretched for marketing/persuasion reasons don't really hold water.
> Not FDA approved in the US. "approval pending"
This FDA link claims Cominarty was approved in August 23 2021. The word "pending" is not found in this page.
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...
> These kind of drugs take years to develop. This stuff was done in a few months.
"The first human clinical trials using an mRNA vaccine against an infectious agent (rabies) began in 2013." (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRNA_vaccine)
Of course the actual individual version for COVID-19 is newer, but then again, so is any flu vaccine that is updated basically yearly. What matters is the age of the "vaccine platform".
> They skipped some steps in the process.
Citation needed?