Both of those treat the disease of covid. They work once you've gotten covid to treat the infection.

You don't take antibiotics before you have an infection right? So that's a curative treatment.

You get a vaccine even years or decades before possibly getting infected. It prevents infection.

That's the difference so why use the word vaccine when we know both of those aren't given once years before an infection?

You take those consistently for a period of time like any other med when you get sick.

Both of those are treatments.