Top 10 ‘safest states’ if you fear COVID-19, WalletHub reports

Cherrie Mathieson, from Fergus Falls, Minn., and Lorrayne Bailey, Santa Clara, Calif., discuss on Hogback Mountain, in Marlboro, Vt., on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. One report lists Vermont because the most secure state within the U.S. for threat of COVID-19.

Kristopher Radder, The Brattleboro Reformer by way of Related Press

Whereas our nation’s recorded instances, deaths and transmission of the virus has plummeted, security measures in opposition to COVID-19 and its variants are nonetheless in impact — although notably much less regimented than within the earlier levels of the pandemic. Every state has dealt with containing and controlling the unfold of the virus in a different way and WalletHub has launched a examine on which states have been simplest at containing the virus.

Briefly, which states are the most secure from COVID-19? WalletHub in contrast the 50 states and the District of Columbia throughout 5 classes, together with vaccination charge, constructive testing charge, hospitalization charge, dying charge and degree of neighborhood transmission. Whereas dying charge and vaccination charge had a better weight in general scoring, every class was analyzed whereas grading every state out of 100 doable factors. Greater level scores indicated a secure area.

WalletHub concluded that the highest 10 most secure states from COVID-19 are:

1. Vermont, with a rating of 75.95.
2. North Carolina, following as an in depth runner-up with 75.32.
3. Rhode Island, at a complete of 74.07 factors.
4. New Hampshire, 73.60 factors.
5. Connecticut, 69.86 factors.
6. Maine, 69.13 factors.
7. Hawaii, 67.61 factors.
8. Colorado, 67.45 factors.
9. District of Columbia, 67.25 factors.
10. Nevada, 65.16 factors.

The Inexperienced Mountain State has raised its rating since July, because it was beforehand in fifth place for most secure state from COVID-19. Vermont had the bottom hospitalization charge and the bottom constructive testing charge in comparison with every other state, whereas rating effectively in two different classes. The one space that Vermont struggled in was its degree of neighborhood transmission, coming in at fifth-highest within the nation.

North Carolina, as a runner-up, tied for first in two classes, as effectively. North Carolina ranked highest for vaccination charge and tied for the bottom dying charge within the U.S., whereas rating effectively by the opposite three metrics.

This information was gathered from the U.S. Census Bureau, Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, U.S. Division of Well being & Human Providers and COVID-19 Digital Laboratory Reporting. WalletHub additionally discovered on this examine that “blue” states had been barely safer from COVID-19 than “purple” states, statistically. The ten least secure areas from the Coronavirus are, in response to WalletHub:

1. Louisiana, 14.31.
2. West Virginia, 15.50.
3. Tennessee, 16.67.
4. Georgia, 18.92.
5. Kentucky, 19.24.
6. Indiana, 23.90.
7. Mississippi, 26.42.
8. Idaho, 27.47.
9. Arkansas, 27.67.
10. Wyoming, 29.75.