Ethical Failures of the COVID-19 Pandemic Response

This book draws attention to the non-biological—political, economic, societal and cultural—variables shaping both the emergence and persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global response to it, with a particular focus on political decisionmakers' role in the domestic and international politics surrounding the process of the pandemic. The book identifies the strategic and underlying ethical failures of decision making, using a process-tracing approach to reconstruct considerations, decisions and actions by key leaders—interested in thus weaving a global narrative of the response. The author highlights key speech acts, and interprets the causal implications embedded in a chronological and contextualised appraisal of events, statements and public health measures. The book further discusses the normative ethics of pandemic response, and presents lessons drawn from the present experience. It also offers a normative analysis taking into consideration pre-pandemic guidelines for response, including in the literature of public health ethics and pandemic preparedness plans. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.

Exploring international mobility patterns and the post-COVID trends of international mobility in Hungary and in the ethnic Hungarian communities of the neighbouring countries of Hungary, 2020

Along with the development of communication and transportation options new forms of mobility may link people to multiple places. There-fore, instead of one-time and one-way migration these people may be able to use different functions in different geographical locations or countries, like in a chain network. Among ethnic Hungariansplays the most significant role in the population decline, as such the use of the nontraditional mobility patterns may represent significant factors in staying in the homeland. The aim of this study is to map, quantify and characterize the groups engaged in these new mobility patterns in Hungary, the most populous Hungarian communities from Transylvania (Romania), Southern Slovakia, Vojvodina (Serbia) and Transcarpathia (Ukraine). The study outlines that the COVID pandemic situation had severe effects on the cross-border mobility networks, commuters faced serious difficulties. However, long term goals of the surveyed population regarding cross-border mobility have been moderately impacted © 2022, Teruleti Statisztika. All Rights Reserved.