I think this is not a good way of representing things. When you say "vaccines edit the genetic code", most listeners would understand it that the vaccines activ

I think this is not a good way of representing things. When you say "vaccines edit the genetic code", most listeners would understand it that the vaccines actively and directly change your genes. This is of course what is not happenig. And as many people claim that mRNA vaccines perform genetic manipulation, I would even claim it is dangerous to say. I think, the correct way to phrase it is: an immune reaction, be it against a vaccine or an infection is expressed in genetic changes of some cells. But this is how the immune system works, nothing specific to vaccines. Vaccines are just a safe and efficient way to trigger the immune response.