Multiple cases of acute pancreatitis in patients with COVID-19 have been reported in the literature [36,237,238,239,240] and altered serum cytokine levels of increased IL-6, IL-8, and IL-10 were found to be similar in cases of severe acute pancreatitis and in cases of COVID-19 [229]. This evidence concerns the gene CXCL8 and acute pancreatitis.