> People were assured that COVID vaccine mRNA would disappear within days and the spike protein would short-lived

which is still the case, even in the Yale study.

> That is a massive gap between what the public was told and what later evidence found.

there is an even larger gap between basic epidemiology and what the public understands.

Hard science is difficult to communicate on a good day, on a global pandemic with quacks getting tons of airtime and multiple labs finding conflicting results (due to speed to publish and bad experimental parameters) I would say that was communicated by health experts was surprisingly valid and accurate.