A Final Report Card on the States’ Response to COVID-19https://committeetounleashprosperity.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Which-States-Handled-the-Covid-Pandemic-Best.pdfIn the beginning stages of the pandemic, the Committee to Unleash Prosperity released a widely cited study and early stage report card on how the states were responding to the pandemic, based on how many jobs and how much GDP was lost and how states were performing in terms of reducing Covid infections and deaths.
This study is an expanded and updated version of that original report card of how the 50 states handled COVID. The study primarily examined three variables: health outcomes, economic performance throughout the pandemic, and impact on education (i.e., the number of days of schooling that children missed).
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This summary map shows combined scores. The table shows each state’s combined score alongside its components.
The outcomes in NJ, NY, and CA were among the worst in all three categories: morality, economy, and schooling. UT, NE, and VT were leaders in all three categories. The scores have a clear spatial pattern, perhaps reflecting spatial correlations in demographic, economic, and political variables. However, IL, NM, CO, and CA are outliers among their geographic neighbors in the direction of low combined scores. FL, AR, WV, and UT are outliers in the other direction.
Needless to say, DU-folk would rejects this more balanced view of Covid management.
Xi-the-Pooh's
No Covid policy is more their style, and it's failing, terribly (especially right now in Shanghai).
