B ritain did a lot of things badly during the covid-19 pandemic. But on clinical trials, which test the safety and efficacy of medicines, it did a lot of things remarkably well. It was the first country in the world to approve a covid vaccine, on the back of speedy yet rigorous testing. And at the beginning of the pandemic British scientists set up RECOVERY , the first randomised trial for covid treatments. The discovery that dexamethasone, a cheap steroid, reduced covid deaths by a third is alone estimated to have saved more than 1m lives.
B Ritain在Covid-19-19大流行期间做了很多事情。但是，在测试药物的安全性和功效的临床试验中，它做得非常好。这是世界上第一个在快速而严格的测试后面批准一种共同疫苗的国家。在大流行的英国科学家开头建立了恢复，这是第一个用于共同治疗的随机试验。廉价类固醇，仅三分之一降低了同固醇，据估计，这种发现挽救了100万以上的生命。
