rs4830976 is associated (P<3.96×10-5) with and colocalized (PP.H4>0.80) with expression of nearby genes CA5B, CLTRN (also known as TMEM27), and VEGFD (Supplementary Table 15) in at least one tissue, indicating that this variant may be instrumenting on gene expression beyond ACE2. However, given the biological prior that ACE2 acts as the receptor of SARS-CoV-2, ACE2 is probably more likely than CA5B, CLTRN or VEGFD to be responsible for COVID-19 hospitalization. This evidence concerns the gene CA5B and COVID-19.