Despite these caveats, S1R agonists and antagonists are under consideration for an ever-widening spectrum of pathologies ranging from COVID-19 treatment to cancer diagnosis, chronic pain remedies, and neurodegenerative disease therapeutics (Happy et al., 2015; Das et al., 2016; Vavers et al., 2019; Vela, 2020). The gene discussed is TMBIM4; the disease is COVID-19.