Number of #coronavirus posts by IG influencers in selected countries as of March 2020
Between December 2019 and March 2020, there has been a large presence of coronavirus-related posts online. In the United States, there were 59,653 #coronavirus posts made by Instagram influencers when the country had 6,515 confirmed cases, showing a high activity of Instagrammers compared to relatively low number of cases. At the same time, the situation was reversed in Iran, at 7,948 #coronavirus posts while there were 16,169 confirmed coronavirus cases in the country.