Transcriptomic studies of COVID-19 patients revealed upregulated cytokine (TNF, CXCL8, IL1B, IL6, IL10, IL12) and chemokine (CCL2, CCL3, CCL4, CCL20, CXCL2, CXCL9, CXCL10) expression in monocytes as one major dysregulation in these patients [3,13,15]. Here, IL1B is linked to COVID-19.