To further confirm these observations, we analyzed an independent scRNA‐Seq dataset of lung samples from COVID‐19 patients (Wauters et al, 2021) and consistently found that PLAC8 is significantly overexpressed in bona fide SARS‐CoV‐2 infected cells (COVID19_Infected_S) compared with uninfected cells from COVID‐19 patients (Fig 4D). Here, PLAC8 is linked to COVID-19.