You are either very poorly informed, misled, or ignorant. It absolutely is a virus - one particular type of a large family of related viruses, with about 10,000 strains now isolated and identified, with specific detailed genetics correlated causally to specific traits and oh so much more. Where ever you are getting your information from is a highly non credible and unreliable source pushing misinformation.
The disease COVID-19 is absolutely caused by the virus - SARS-CoV-2. The shots, especially the mRNA ones work amazingly well with minimal side effects. Some of those are quite rare (though real) risks that occur primarily because the spike protein from the virus is incredibly toxic and damaging. The vaccines use a reduced version of the spike to generate immunity. Normally that is restricted to a small area of muscle tissue in an arm and is not free to circulate as it is with an infection. And the amount is many orders of magnitude less than from an infection.
As of April 11 there are 4,095 officially recognized and named strains (there are many more that did not last long enough or spread far enough to be named, and a dozen or more pending names). 49 of those are named hybrids between two or more strains, with another 960 of those being descendants of hybrids.
It was never a virus. It was the shots, dingbat
You are either very poorly informed, misled, or ignorant. It absolutely is a virus - one particular type of a large family of related viruses, with about 10,000 strains now isolated and identified, with specific detailed genetics correlated causally to specific traits and oh so much more. Where ever you are getting your information from is a highly non credible and unreliable source pushing misinformation.
The disease COVID-19 is absolutely caused by the virus - SARS-CoV-2. The shots, especially the mRNA ones work amazingly well with minimal side effects. Some of those are quite rare (though real) risks that occur primarily because the spike protein from the virus is incredibly toxic and damaging. The vaccines use a reduced version of the spike to generate immunity. Normally that is restricted to a small area of muscle tissue in an arm and is not free to circulate as it is with an infection. And the amount is many orders of magnitude less than from an infection.
As of April 11 there are 4,095 officially recognized and named strains (there are many more that did not last long enough or spread far enough to be named, and a dozen or more pending names). 49 of those are named hybrids between two or more strains, with another 960 of those being descendants of hybrids.