ALB and COVID-19: Furthermore, patients with mucormycosis andvery low albumin levels (≤ 2.5 g/dL) had significantly lower survival rates whencompared to other mucormycosis patients (Fig. 1b).These findings were independently validated through an analysis of serum albumin levels ina cohort of patients with pulmonary mucormycosis in a tertiary care center from PGIMER,Chandigarh, India (Fig. 1b and SupplementaryTable 1), who had DM and COVID-19 as main underlying risk factors, and apublished cohort of patients with mucormycosis from France (Ambizygo Study20) who had different risk factors (Fig. 1b).