As bars, movie theatres, gyms and restaurants close due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, many people around the world are choosing to stay home and watch TV while practising social distancing.
Netflix and other streaming services are seeing a jump in their numbers for programming surrounding virus-related content. The 1995 film Outbreak, starring Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland and Patrick Dempsey, is now in Netflix’s Top 10.
As of Saturday, Outbreak was at number nine on Netflix’s Top 10 list in the United States. The streaming service first began releasing the Top 10 lists on Feb.