Indeed, both renal HK-2 and the adenocarcinoma colorectal Caco-2 cell lines have been reported to be infected by SARS-CoV-2 (Yeung et al., 2021; Shuai et al., 2020), with inflammatory response mainly mediated by the S protein interaction with the cell surface, such as demonstrated in Caco-2 cell lines in terms of NFk-beta activation and CXCL10 secretion (Poeta et al., 2021). Here, CXCL10 is linked to adenocarcinoma.