介绍： What do a malaria drug, a Russian vaccine and the blood plasma of people who have recovered from covid-19 have in common?

抗疟疾药物、俄罗斯疫苗和新冠康复患者的血浆之间有什么共同之处？
All have been approved for use by governments in response to the coronavirus pandemic,
上述这些都被政府批准使用以应对新冠疫情...

介绍： What do a malaria drug, a Russian vaccine and the blood plasma of people who have recovered from covid-19 have in common?

抗疟疾药物、俄罗斯疫苗和新冠康复患者的血浆之间有什么共同之处？
All have been approved for use by governments in response to the coronavirus pandemic,
上述这些都被政府批准使用以应对新冠疫情，
with little or no scientific substance to back those decisions up.
且都几乎没有科学依据来支持这些决定。
On March 28th, near the pandemic's beginning, America's Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
3月28日，疫情开始之前，美国食品和药物管理局（FDA）
issued emergency-use authorisation for hydroxychloroquine,
批准了羟基氯喹的紧急使用授权，
an established but not risk-free antimalarial medicine which was controversially being proposed by some people,
这是一种得到认可但存在风险的抗疟疾药物，一些人提议使用该药物作为一种治疗新冠的潜在药物，
including Donald Trump, the country's president, as a possible covid treatment.
其中就包括该国总统唐纳德·特朗普
It did so, the authorisation stated, based on "limited in vitro and anecdotal clinical data".
授权声明称，它是基于“有限的体外和传闻临床数据”而批准使用的。
On August 11th Vladimir Putin, Mr Trump's Russian counterpart,
8月11日，俄罗斯领导人弗拉基米尔·普京表示
said his government was the world's first to approve a coronavirus vaccine, despite a lack of proper tests.
尽管缺乏适当的测试，但他的政府是世界首个批准新冠疫苗的国家。

And on August 23rd Mr Trump announced approval of the use of convalescent plasma therapy to treat covid-19.

8月23日，特朗普宣布批准使用恢复期血浆疗法治疗新冠。