The viability of NUDCD1’s involvement in COVID-19 disease was supported by prior description of NUDCD1 as a high-placed candidate amongst a catalogue of genes listed in a COVID-19 severity association study though this track was not further pursued, as well as its described link with an RNA helicase DHX15 with ascribed antiviral role (33, 47). The gene discussed is DHX15; the disease is COVID-19.