CRP and COVID-19: It is noteworthy that the findings of elevated CRP plasma levels and their strong association with a higher risk of all-cause mortality among non-survivors of the present study are in agreement with the results of previous works, which showed a strong association of a condition of hyperinflammatory status and/or a manifest myocardial injury related to SARS-CoV-2 infection with both short- and long-term adverse outcomes among COVID-19 patients [24,25,26].