Patients admitted to the Cliniques universitaires Saint- Luc, Brussels, Belgium, with SARS-CoV-2 during the February 23, 2020 to April 18, 2020 and September 21, 2020 to November 21, 2020 waves of the pandemic.   Cox regression used to analyze survival and confocal microscopy to assess URAT1 in the kidney of those who died from COVID-19. This evidence concerns the gene SLC22A12 and COVID-19.