____ (2022-05-20). More than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths in New Zealand. wsws.org New Zealand has gone from having no COVID deaths for most of the pandemic, to now having one of the highest weekly death rates in the world, as a result of the Labour Party government abandoning its elimination policy.

Staff (2022-05-20). Cuba reporta 61 nuevos casos de COVID-19 y ningún fallecido. cubadebate.cu Para la COVID-19 se realizaron un total de 5163 muestras para la vigilancia en el día, resultando positivas 61. El país acumula 13 814 412 muestras realizadas y 1 104 891 positivas. Al cierre del día de ayer, 19 de mayo, se encuentran ingresados un total de 1659 pacientes, sospechosos 1307, en vigilancia 35 y confirmados activos 317.

____ (2022-05-20). Covid rips through US schools during sixth surge. wsws.org The mass infection policies enforced by the federal government have left teachers, staff and students entirely unprotected in schools as cases surge.

Fidelia Cascini, Ana Pantovic, Yazan A. Al-Ajlouni, Giovanna Failla, Valeria Puleo, Andriy Melnyk, Alberto Lontano, Walter Ricciardi (2022-05-20). [Articles] Social media and attitudes towards a COVID-19 vaccination: A systematic review of the literature. thelancet.com This thorough examination of the various roles social media can play in disseminating information to the public, as well as how individuals behave on social media in the context of public health events, articulates the potential of social media as a platform of public health intervention to address vaccine hesitancy.

____ (2022-05-20). Over 100 monkeypox infections detected in 10 countries as unprecedented outbreak spreads globally. wsws.org An unprecedented outbreak of monkeypox virus has officially spread to nine countries outside of Africa, with 107 confirmed or suspected cases reported as of this writing, in the United Kingdom (9 cases), Portugal (34), Spain (32), France (1), Belgium (2), Sweden (1), Italy (3), Canada (22), the United States (2), and Australia (1).

Staff (2022-05-20). España es el país no africano con mayor número de casos positivos a la viruela del mono. cubadebate.cu El Ministerio de Sanidad de España ha informado que 23 de los casos sospechosos de infección con la viruela del mono dieron positivo a las pruebas PCR realizadas en el Centro Nacional de Microbiología (CNM). De este modo, ya ascienden a 30 los casos confirmados del virus, endógeno de àÅfrica central y occidental.