TLR7 and Sjogren syndrome: Numerous preclinical and clinical studies have determined that the TLR-7 pathway plays a pivotal role in the inflammatory processes and pathogeneses of common ssRNA viral infections such as COVID-19, HIV, and influenza, as well as autoimmune diseases such as Sjögren’s syndrome and lupus [17,21,22,46], which have high prevalence rates in women of child-bearing age.