(2021-05-22). [Articles] Patient care and clinical outcomes for patients with COVID-19 infection admitted to African high-care or intensive care units (ACCCOS): a multicentre, prospective, observational cohort study. thelancet.com Mortality in critically ill patients with COVID-19 is higher in African countries than reported from studies done in Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. Increased mortality was associated with insufficient critical care resources, as well as the comorbidities of HIV/AIDS, diabetes, chronic liver disease, and kidney disease, and severity of organ dysfunction at admission.
(2021-05-22). [Correspondence] Refugee access to COVID-19 vaccines in Lebanon. thelancet.com Lebanon is currently experiencing multiple unprecedented crises—political, infrastructural, and economic. The Beirut port explosion, in August, 2020, damaged 36% of health facilities.1 The Lebanese pound has lost 90% of its value, pushing more than half of the population into poverty.1 Complicating its desperate plight, Lebanon hosts the largest refugee population per capita in the world.2 The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this situation, leaving an ill-equipped health-care system overwhelmed.
(2021-05-22). UK covid cases rise due to ending containment and spread of Indian variant. wsws.org The Tories are responding to the demands of big business that no more lockdowns are imposed and to their support base in the more affluent suburban and rural areas of the country not living in the overcrowded urban centres being hit by the resurgence of the virus.
(2021-05-22). COVID-19 potentially killing tens of thousands in India every day. wsws.org In the seven weeks since April 1, India's official total of COVID-19 fatalities has risen by more than 125,000, or 75 percent, reaching 291,331 as of yesterday morning.
(2021-05-22). India: World's biggest producer fails to vaccinate its people. peoplesdispatch.org The Narendra Modi government in India chose to believe that it had defeated the pandemic, and therefore the slow pace of its vaccination program posed no problems…
(2021-05-22). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and New Zealand. wsws.org The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
(2021-05-22). Defend Sri Lankan poet Ahnaf Jazeem! wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka and the Action Committee for the Defence of Freedom of Art and Expression demand the immediate and unconditional release of the young poet.
(2021-05-22). Biden Administration To Remove US Oil Company From Northeastern Syria — Report. southfront.org 
File image. | The Biden administration has decided to not extend a sanctions waiver for a small US oil company to operate in northeastern Syria, The company,
(2021-05-22). Poland Confirms Purchase Of Bayraktar TB2 Combat Drones From Turkey. southfront.org 
Bayrakdar TB2 UCAV, source: ssb.gov.tr | On May 22, the Ministry of Defense of Poland announced that it would purchase 24 Bayraktar TB2 combat drones from Turkey. | "The Polish military will be equipped with modern equipment, with Bayraktar TB2 which have a striking force and have proven themselves in the wars in the east of our continent. They were also used in Africa," the ministry said on Twitter. | The deal was also confirmed by Poland's Defense Minister, Mariusz Blaszczak, who praised the Turkish-made drone in…
(2021-05-22). May 26 — The end of the Commune is near. roarmag.org 
Reclus — The Paris Commune Day By Day: | Fusillades can no longer be heard on the other side of the water. Around seven or eight o'clock in the morning we look at the Pantheon: it's been stripped of its red flag. | The Pantheon is no longer anything but the Church of St. Genevieve, a great Catholic chapel, the counterfeit of a Roman monument. What does the Pantheon matter to me now? | The left bank of the Seine is entirely in the hands of the army of Versailles which, master now of the river and an entire half of the city, with its growing forces inundates the Parisians whose men, decreasing by the…
(2021-05-22). DP details systematic oppression in Erdogan's new Turkey as show trial reopens in Ankara. mronline.org 
The Kobani case is the biggest political trial in modern Turkish history with 108 leading HDP officials and parliamentarians facing multiple life sentences as a 3,350-page case file indicts them on 38 counts of homicide. | May 22, 2021…
(2021-05-22). Why One State in India Is Showing Promising Signs of Democracy. popularresistance.org The right wing in Kerala has typically claimed that the Left is not equipped to build the state's infrastructure. But this time, the right wing had no grounds to make its typical complaints. Since 2016, the state government has not only improved the basic transportation infrastructure but has also built up other kinds of infrastructure needed by the working class and the peasantry.
(2021-05-22). Myanmar: "Nobody Chooses to be a Refugee" – UNHCR. telesurenglish.net Refugees, people fleeing air strikes by the Myanmar military, and those who are at risk of political persecution, or worse, if they are caught by the junta – they have been the focus of attention in the months since the Feb 1 coup. | RELATE: | This is particularly so in Thailand, which shares a border of over 2,400 km with Myanmar and has hosted nearly 92,000 refugees, most of them of Karen ethnicity, in nine camps fo…
(2021-05-22). Syria Elections: Always Disparaged by the Meddling Imperial West. globalresearch.ca The election for …