The Problem With DIY Covid-19 Vaccines

Alexandra Sifferlin
Medium Coronavirus Blog
2 min readSep 10, 2020

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There are two recently published stories about scientists who are developing and giving themselves DIY vaccines for Covid-19—one published by MIT Tech Review and one in the New York Times.

The vaccine is made by a scientist—Preston Estep, a genome researcher who lives in the Boston area—and many of the experts taking it are well respected in their fields. Yet DIY vaccine efforts are problematic…

Alexandra Sifferlin
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Health and science journalist. Former editor of Medium’s Covid-19 Blog and deputy editor at Elemental. TIME Magazine writer before that