Transcriptional profiling of cytokines and chemokines in normal human lung epithelial cells (NHBE) infected with SARS-CoV-2 revealed increased levels of CCL20, CXCL1, IL-1B, IL-6, CXCL3, CXCL5, CXCL6, CXCL2, CXCL16, and TNF-α by primary lung epithelial cells in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection (Blanco-Melo et al., 2020). This evidence concerns the gene CXCL16 and COVID-19.