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Mr. Szánthó is the Director of the Center for Fundamental Rights, a conservative legal think-tank based in Budapest.
How did Hungary react to the pandemic?
The nations of the world have to face a peril to public health perhaps not seen in the hundred years since the Spanish Flu. Governments everywhere must confront a choice straight from hell: whether to save lives or the economy. The healthcare systems of some of the most advanced nations are crumpling under the gruesome pressure of thousands of new cases of a virus they cannot cure every day. When the shocking reality of the chaos and suffering in Italy set in nearly two months ago, a state of danger was declared in Hungary and soon the Hungarian parliament voted to grant emergency...
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