During the revision of this paper, an updated HGI analysis with a much larger sample size (B2_release5, involving 13,641 cases and 2,070,709 controls) has identified FOXP4-AS1 as a significant locus associated with hospitalized COVID-19 (rs1886814, OR = 1.26, P = 1.11 × 10−9, LD r2 = 0.64 with rs1853837)31, supporting the validity of our result. This evidence concerns the gene FOXP4 and COVID-19.