IFITM3 and COVID-19: Following up to the analysis of COVID-19 NHS mortality data in BAME groups (Aldridge et al., 2020), the purpose of the present study was to investigate a possible association between the stand-alone and combined frequencies of the alleles of the IFITM3 gene variants rs12252 and rs34481144, with COVID-19 standardized mortality ratio of ethnic groups in England.