Interestingly, there seems to be a dynamic role for immune responses, where a lack of competent Th1 adaptive immune responses and decreased CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells, resulting in lymphopenia, have been observed in some patients with the most severe disease, while at the same time, overly robust immune responses leading to cytokine storm are also being observed in the most severe cases (79–81). Here, CD8A is linked to lymphopenia.