NKG2A and COVID-19: another brick in the wall

Coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)is a viral infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2;formerly designated as 2019-nCoV),a novel betacoronavirus firstly identified during a burst of respiratory illness cases in Wuhan City,Hubei Province,China.1 Unfortunately,within a few weeks,the SARS-COV2 virus started to spread globally,producing a pandemic of an extremely spreadable and potentially fatal disease,becoming a cause of great concern for global public health.1 Despite the current estimates of COVID-19 case fatality rate suggest that this coronavirus is less deadly than other pathogens driving other large-scale outbreaks,such as SARS,Middle East respiratory syndrome,or Ebola,the main concern is that this infection is able to spread more easily than other diseases,including seasonal influenza.