It technically is. messenger RNA (mRNA) is genetic code. It hacks your body, making it do things it is not supposed to do.
It is not a vaccine with the original definition of "a living or dead pathogen inserted into the body to produce an immune response." Marriam-Webster changed their definition recently to allow for mRNA to fit, but it is a fundamentally different technology. The mRNA injections have a vaccine-like property now, but it is not inherent to the technology, has proven to spread all over the body, and hacks cells to produce spike proteins wherever it travels.
"Hack" might be the wrong word. The mRNA strain elicits a response from your body, causing it to create a molecule that makes you resistant to the virus. This is compared to actually giving you a small dose of the virus so your immune system can "learn" the characteristics of the virus to protect against it.
That's the same thing a cold virus does. It releases RNA into your cell and your cell responds by creating more cold viruses. The mRNA doesn't seem to be the issue with the vaccines, first Moderna and Pfizer use nanolipids to deliver it and it does not stay in the injection site and secondly the spike proteins aren't supposed to be released into your blood stream but they are, and thirdly the spike proteins are more inflammatory than the intact virus (although with a natural case of covid spike proteins cleave off also causing inflammation and myocarditis).
With a traditional virus your immune system's adaptive immunity learns how the virus proteins are structured so it can recognize it (and similar strains) in the future. With the mRNA vaccines your immune system never learns to recognize the virus, which is why people with Covid are having far fewer problems with the Delta variant compared to those who just received the mRNA vaccines.
It technically is. messenger RNA (mRNA) is genetic code. It hacks your body, making it do things it is not supposed to do.
It is not a vaccine with the original definition of "a living or dead pathogen inserted into the body to produce an immune response." Marriam-Webster changed their definition recently to allow for mRNA to fit, but it is a fundamentally different technology. The mRNA injections have a vaccine-like property now, but it is not inherent to the technology, has proven to spread all over the body, and hacks cells to produce spike proteins wherever it travels.
By that logic the common cold is gene therapy.
"Hack" might be the wrong word. The mRNA strain elicits a response from your body, causing it to create a molecule that makes you resistant to the virus. This is compared to actually giving you a small dose of the virus so your immune system can "learn" the characteristics of the virus to protect against it.
That's the same thing a cold virus does. It releases RNA into your cell and your cell responds by creating more cold viruses. The mRNA doesn't seem to be the issue with the vaccines, first Moderna and Pfizer use nanolipids to deliver it and it does not stay in the injection site and secondly the spike proteins aren't supposed to be released into your blood stream but they are, and thirdly the spike proteins are more inflammatory than the intact virus (although with a natural case of covid spike proteins cleave off also causing inflammation and myocarditis).
With a traditional virus your immune system's adaptive immunity learns how the virus proteins are structured so it can recognize it (and similar strains) in the future. With the mRNA vaccines your immune system never learns to recognize the virus, which is why people with Covid are having far fewer problems with the Delta variant compared to those who just received the mRNA vaccines.