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Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by UncleOxidant on Friday December 04, 2020 @08:43PM (#25310812)
r/covid19 is a great source of information, but the mods police it very heavily to keep it that way.
Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by cblconfederate on Saturday December 05, 2020 @11:11AM (#25315562)
yes because it's heavily moderated. and most of the removed content is .. unsurprisingly politics
Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by UncleOxidant on Monday December 07, 2020 @12:36PM (#25334516)
Also people hawking various supplements that they claim can cure covid.
Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by lowdose on Friday December 04, 2020 @08:45PM (#25310821)
What have you read there that was such an insightful piece of information?
Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by UncleOxidant on Friday December 04, 2020 @09:03PM (#25310935)
A lot of papers and clinical trial results are posted there. And given the technical nature of the content a lot of people in the medical field hang out there and comment. Much of it is a bit over my head, but it's a good for learning.

For a sample, here are a couple of posts there today: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-00835-2 Therapeutically administered ribonucleoside analogue MK-4482/EIDD-2801 blocks SARS-CoV-2 transmission in ferrets

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/12/04/ge... Get Ready for False Side Effects

Re:Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for... by byecomputer on Monday December 07, 2020 @12:28AM (#25329568)
Heads up, r/covid19 isn't r/Coronavirus, the latter being pretty vapid & sensational