As a lncRNA activated by DNA damage, NORAD expression might increase due to aberrant SARS-CoV-2 replication (Morenikeji et al., 2020), and its upregulation has been shown to reduce the growth of a lymphoblastoid cell line (Wang C. et al., 2019a), suggesting a potential role of NORAD in lymphopenia. The gene discussed is NORAD; the disease is lymphopenia.