Furthermore, the autopsy report of people who died due to the 2002 SARS outbreak revealed that 35% of heart specimens demonstrated the existence of viral RNA in the myocardium, and this, in turn, was linked to lower expression of ACE2 protein20, SARS-CoV-2 can represent the same mechanism because the two viruses seem to be similar in the genome21. The gene discussed is ACE2; the disease is severe acute respiratory syndrome.