Acknowledgements Open Access funding provided by Projekt DEAL. This work was in part supported by a COVID-19 grant from the state Baden-Württemberg. Authors’ contributions Conceptualization: all authors; methodology, formal analysis, and investigation: Samir Abu-Rumeileh, Ahmed Abdelhak, and Matteo Foschi; writing—original draft preparation: all authors; figure preparation: Matteo Foschi; writing—review and editing: all authors; supervision: Markus Otto and Hayrettin Tumani. Compliance with ethical standards Conflicts of interest The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest related to the content of this article. Ethical standard For the present study, no authorization to an Ethics Committee was asked, because the original reports, nor this work, provided any personal information of the patients.