In addition, the relative expression of the CoV2‐miR‐O7a.1 and CoV2‐miR‐O7a.2 among different COVID‐19 patients correlated with genomic viral RNA levels detected in the swab samples (Fig 7A), suggesting that the higher is the abundance of the SARS‐CoV‐2 genome, the higher is the processing of CoV2‐miR‐O7a.1 and CoV2‐miR‐O7a.2 by the human Dicer during viral replication in the upper respiratory tract. The gene discussed is DICER1; the disease is COVID-19.