The novel coronavirus disease 2019 has rapidly increased in pandemic scale since it first
appeared in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. In these troubled days the scientific
community is asking for rapid replies to prevent and combat the emergency. It is generally
accepted that only achieving a better understanding of the interactions between the virus
and the host immune response and of the pathogenesis of infection is crucial to identify valid
therapeutic tools to control virus entry, replication, and spread as well as to impair its lethal …