NFKB1 and infection: Recent reports have shown that NFkB is activated during infections with SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2, although the mechanism and the importance of this activation are not well established (Liao, 2005; Kircheis et al., 2020; Park and Lee, 2020; Hariharan et al., 2021; Hsu, 2021; Li et al., 2021).