Although we observed SARS-CoV-2-S protein expression in CK19+ ductal cells in culture and not in CK19+ cells from the limited set of post-mortem human pancreatic tissues of COVID-19 patients, a recent study did observe SARS-CoV-2-N protein expression in CK19+ ductal cells in human tissues, suggesting some extent SARS-CoV-2 infection is possible in human pancreatic ductal compartment (Müller et al., 2021). Here, KRT19 is linked to COVID-19.