NDUFB8 and infection: Remarkably, NDUFB8 gene is also one of the persistently perturbed genes across all the post-infection timepoints and one that is overexpressed in recovered COVID-19 patients at 12 weeks post-infection but progressively and consistently exhibits a reduced positive fold change through week 16 up to week 24 (see supplementary data Excel file sheets S1, S2, S3 and S4).