WARS1 levels were significantly higher in patients with sepsis than in healthy controls (p < 0.001, Fig. 1A) or ICU-controls (p = 0.04) and in patients with septic shock than in those with sepsis (p = 0.01), and WARS1 levels were significantly higher in non-survivors than in survivors (p = 0.007, Fig. 1B), indicating a reflection of severity. Here, WARS1 is linked to Shock.