KRT18 and viral infectious disease: We also simultaneously infected hACE2KIhomo-NSG mice to serve as both a positive indicator for successful viral infection, as well as to evaluate any clinical deterioration in the physiologically expressing hACE2KIhomo-NSG mice, similar to that observed in the available K18-hACE2-B6 (The Jackson Laboratory, B6.Cg-Tg(K18-ACE2)2Prlmn/J, 034,860) line.