Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) affected 104.956.439 people worldwide and caused the death of 2.290.488 as of February 7, 2121[1]. Life-threatening cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are typically characterized by a detrimental hyper-inflammatory host response to the virus, which is reminiscent of the cytokine storm which develops in macrophage activation syndrome or after chimeric antigen receptor T-cell treatment, with massive release of pro-inflammatory cytokines [2,3].
