Our data on the elevated VE-cadherin expression (Figures 2, 3) in lung samples of COVID-19 patients are in line with the reduced T-cadherin expression (Figure 1), though in contrast with the recently published results on reduced VE-Cadherin expression during SARS-CoV-2 viral infection (Nader and Kerrigan, 2022; Xu et al., 2023). Here, CDH5 is linked to COVID-19.