KCNA1 and severe acute respiratory syndrome: Among the several coronaviruses that are pathogenic to humans: Bat CoV RaTG13 is considered to have closely related ORF8 homologs with 92.86% of nucleotide similarity to SARS-CoV-2 (23), SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV are associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome in humans, like SARS-CoV-2, showing 79% and 50% nucleotide similarity to SARS-CoV-2, respectively, HCoV-HUK1 is one of four β-CoV that normally cause cold symptoms in humans (24).