Making Vaccine — LessWrong

John made his own COVID-19 vaccine at home using open source instructions. Here's how he did it and why. …

x Making Vaccine — LessWrong Best of LessWrong 2021 Covid-19 DIY Market Inefficiency Bayes' Theorem Practical Frontpage 596 Making Vaccine by johnswentworth 3rd Feb 2021 7 min read 249 596 Back in December, I asked how hard it would be to make a vaccine for oneself. Several people pointed to radvac . It was a best-case scenario: an open-source vaccine design, made for self-experimenters, dead simple to make with readily-available materials, well-explained reasoning about the design, and with the name of one of the world’s more competent biologists (who I already knew of beforehand) stamped on

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