CRP and COVID-19: Severe or fatal cases of COVID-19 usually present with increased levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines, known as cytokine storm (de la Rica et al., 2020), low albumin levels (de la Rica et al., 2020), as well as decreased lymphocyte counts and platelets, elevated levels of C-Reactive Protein (CRP), procalcitonin, D-dimer, lactate dehydrogenase, and ferritin, among others (Guan et al., 2020; Zhou et al., 2020; Malik et al., 2021).