Association of ACE2, TMPRSS2, and FURIN expression with asthma-associated gene signatures were measured and tested using Spearman’s rank-order correlation. Statistically significant correlations are marked bold and also indicated as follows:^*p <0.05; ^**p <0.01; ^***p <0.001. Otherwise non-significant (p >0.05). IL-6-TS, IL-6-trans-signalling