KRT17 and COVID-19: To find if the increase in basal cells in COVID-19 lungs could be explained by trans-differentiation from AT2 cells, we integrated the CTA lung epithelial cells with an sc-RNA-seq dataset of lungs with IPF comprising two populations of transitional cells: KRT17+/KRT5- ABI cells, and transitional AT2 cells with a similar transcriptomic profile to AT1 cells (Habermann et al., 2020).