CRP and infection: As an indicator of a triggered cytokine storm, elevated CRP levels in the early phases of the infection may predict subsequent lung damage and respiratory function deterioration caused by the hyper-inflammatory status in patients with COVID-19, as is conceivable from the results of Dickens et al. [46] Aside from the limited number of patients included in their cohort, the scoring system by Dickens et al. did not consider the prognostic weight of demographic factors (such as sex, age, and ethnicity), which are known to heavily influence the prognosis of patients with COVID-19.