From the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, the toughest decisions about how to combat the virus fell on state leaders. Our State Pandemic Scorecard shows how state decisions impacted lives, jobs, education and social well-being:
rom the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, the toughest decisions about how to combat the virus fell on state leaders. Which businesses should stay open and which should shut their doors? Should schools close and for how long? Should masks be mandated?
States whose economies are heavily dependent on tourism suffered the most economically, with Hawaii and Nevada hit hardest.Overall, rural states tended to fare better than more urbanized states on economic and educational outcomes. Many rural states, despite being less densely populated, ranked poorly in health outcomes, however.
“I got to the point where I was saying ‘Please, just wear the mask so you live long enough to vote against me,’” Walz said. Here’s what the scorecard reveals in the four different policy areas. For more information on why and how we calculated these scores, please read ourtended to be more resistant to mask mandates and stay-at-home edicts while Democratic governors, by and large, embraced those public health precautions, even at the expense of the local economy.
Vermont, a blue state run by a Republican governor, earned a nearly perfect score in the health category. Health officials there credit the state’s decision to lift lockdown restrictions in phases.Daily data per 100,000 people, across a seven-day average States that shut down only briefly – or not at all – rebounded far quicker than those that remained closed. Many of the states that did not issue orders directing residents to refrain from participating in nonessential activities – including Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Utah – had better-than-average economic outcomes on the scorecard.
States heavily reliant on tourism suffered the worst. Hawaii and Nevada, which cite tourism as a key driver of state economic revenue, ranked at the bottom, with Hawaii earning 0 out of 100 points for its economy. Average monthly unemployment levels there quadrupled over pre-pandemic levels.Monthly or quarterly percent change from 2019
A key factor in preventing hunger was the robustness of a state’s network of food banks. Carlos Rodriguez, president and CEO of Community Foodbank of New Jersey, said state leaders had already made commitments to address food insecurity before the pandemic struck, putting New Jersey in a strong position to deal with the food crisis. New Jersey scored second in the social well-being category.
The education score was derived from changes in reading and math assessments from each state’s pre-pandemic baseline to spring 2021. Many districts and schools also experienced drops in enrollment during the pandemic as students struggled to make the transition to online or hybrid education or experienced family difficulties. As a result, we also included change in public school enrollment in the education score.
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