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r/CoronavirusNSFW

Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). In December 2019, a novel coronavirus strain (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in the city of Wuhan, China. This subreddit seeks to monitor the spread of the disease COVID-19, declared a pandemic by the WHO. This subreddit is for high-quality posts and discussion. Please be civil and empathetic. Founded 2013 · 2.6M members · links only

2.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 133.7K upvotes, which works out to 51 per 1,000 members.

51peak upvotes per 1,000 members
2.6Mmembers
133.7Kbest post
11.2Kmost comments
438posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

98%
Link 98% Text 2% Image 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

USA 32 USA (/r/all) 25 Europe (/r/all) 6 Good News (/r/all) 6 World 4 World (/r/all) 4 Breaks Rule 5 (/r/all) 3 Video/Image 2 Good News 2 Europe 2

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Even if COVID-19 is unavoidable, delaying infections can flatten the peak number of illnesses to within hospital capacity and significantly reduce de…

↑ 133.7K 💬 4.3K image 2020

Gino Fasoli was 73 years old. He was italian and he was a family doctor and an emergency room manager. In Africa they even kidnapped him to cure the …

↑ 123K 💬 1.8K link 2020

Irish people help raise 1.8 million dollars for Native American tribe badly affected by Covid-19 as payback for a $150 donation by the Choctaw tribe …

↑ 122.6K 💬 2.3K link 2020

All 11 Coronavirus patients in Greenland have now recovered. It is now the only affected country/territory with no active cases.

↑ 106.7K 💬 2.4K link 2020

An Italian hospital ran out of ICU valves. A local biz brought a 3D printer to the hospital, redesigned & produced the valves in a few hours. “At the…

↑ 101.3K 💬 1.4K link 2020

Mark Cuban says bailed out companies should never be allowed to buy back their stocks ever again

↑ 101.3K 💬 1.2K link 2020

If you can’t wear a mask due to “medical” reasons, airlines are now telling these passengers to find alternate travel arrangements.

↑ 98.2K 💬 3.7K link 2020

Governor Cuomo: “My mother is not expendable. Your mother is not expendable. We will not put a dollar figure on human life. We can have a public heal…

↑ 95.1K 💬 3.6K link 2020

Kentucky church fills Easter service to near capacity, while cops wait in parking lot with 14-day quarantines for all.

↑ 92.5K 💬 3.6K link 2020

101 year old man, born during the Spanish flu, has beaten Covid-19 in Italy

↑ 91.1K 💬 1.4K link 2020

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Coronavirus, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/Coronavirus?
r/Coronavirus ("Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)") describes itself this way: In December 2019, a novel coronavirus strain (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in the city of Wuhan, China. This subreddit seeks to monitor the spread of the disease COVID-19, declared a pandemic by the WHO. This subreddit is for high-quality posts and discussion. Please be civil and empathetic. It was founded in 2013 and has 2.6M members.
How many members does r/Coronavirus have?
r/Coronavirus has about 2.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 438 of its posts; the biggest reached 133.7K upvotes, which is 51 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Coronavirus?
"Even if COVID-19 is unavoidable, delaying infections can flatten the peak number of illnesses to within hospital capacity and significantly " reached 133.7K upvotes and 4.3K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Coronavirus.
What subreddits are similar to r/Coronavirus?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PcBuild, r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/mildyinteresting, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile.
What kind of posts do best on r/Coronavirus?
Of the posts we hold, 98% are link posts and 2% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Coronavirus?
Across 438 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 00:00 UTC (74.2K avg upvotes), Sunday at 15:00 UTC (66K avg upvotes), Sunday at 20:00 UTC (64.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Coronavirus?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Coronavirus has 81.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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