CD8A and COVID-19: Further studies have shown exhaustion markers like NKG2A on cytotoxic lymphocytes, including NK cells and CD8+ T cells, are upregulated in patients with COVID-19, and that for recovered patients, numbers of NK cells, CD4+ T cells, CD8+ T cells, and B cells normalize, along with markers of exhaustion on cytotoxic lymphocytes (66, 67).