North Carolina Ranked As Having The Least Coronavirus Support In America

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With 89 percent of adults hospitalized with COVID-19 having some sort of pre-existing condition, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on the States Offering the Most Coronavirus Support. The report seeks to examine how states care for people who are at risk both health-wise and financially.

To identify which states offer the most support during the COVID-19 pandemic, the site compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 17 key metrics. Our data set ranges from whether the state will offer free vaccinations once a vaccine exists to the share of households in poverty that receive social assistance.

South Carolina ranked among the bottom at #47 and North Carolina ranked dead last at #51.

States Offering the Most Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Overall Rank State Total Score ‘Coronavirus Relief & Medical Services’ Rank ‘Food and Housing Assistance’ Rank ‘Unemployment Support’ Rank
1 Massachusetts 69.94 1 2 3
2 District of Columbia 59.36 2 1 43
3 Rhode Island 55.99 5 11 16
4 Maine 54.68 3 19 17
5 North Dakota 52.02 14 7 5
6 New Mexico 50.23 7 14 23
7 Vermont 50.22 17 3 7
8 Colorado 49.96 4 44 24
9 Kentucky 49.48 8 21 21
10 Minnesota 48.09 12 39 4
11 Maryland 46.33 6 33 32
12 New York 45.65 9 12 35
13 Washington 45.30 10 45 12
14 Hawaii 41.81 16 50 6
15 Oregon 41.67 18 37 11
16 Wyoming 41.15 21 26 13
17 Connecticut 41.07 22 13 10
18 Nevada 40.14 15 46 20
19 New Jersey 39.54 27 31 2
20 Louisiana 38.82 11 8 51
21 Michigan 37.67 26 5 28
22 Delaware 37.53 19 15 36
23 Montana 37.04 35 23 9
24 Oklahoma 36.68 23 36 14
25 California 35.48 13 51 31
26 West Virginia 35.47 25 10 34
27 Iowa 35.10 44 25 1
28 Utah 34.96 29 28 19
29 Pennsylvania 34.73 42 18 8
30 Alaska 33.23 20 16 45
31 Illinois 32.84 30 27 29
32 South Dakota 32.66 33 17 25
33 Arkansas 32.03 24 30 33
34 Nebraska 32.01 34 20 30
35 Ohio 30.53 46 6 27
36 Missouri 30.52 38 4 37
37 New Hampshire 30.51 28 9 44
38 Idaho 29.73 37 48 15
39 Kansas 29.64 40 32 22
40 Alabama 25.61 39 22 42
41 Wisconsin 25.00 50 24 25
42 Texas 24.75 51 42 18
43 Tennessee 24.09 32 35 46
44 Florida 22.47 31 47 49
45 Indiana 22.42 43 40 38
46 Virginia 22.40 41 41 40
47 South Carolina 20.28 48 38 39
48 Georgia 20.28 45 43 41
49 Arizona 19.66 36 49 50
50 Mississippi 19.19 47 29 48
51 North Carolina 17.68 49 34 47

Coronavirus Support in North Carolina (1=Most, 25=Avg.):

  • 29th – Coronavirus Relief Fund per Capita
  • 37th – Adoption of Telehealth Services
  • 23rd – Share of Households in Poverty Receiving Social Assistance
  • 32nd – Share of Sheltered Homeless Population
  • 51st – Unemployment Insurance Recipiency Rate
  • 44th – Ratio of Average Weekly Wage Covered by Unemployment Benefit

For the full report, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-offering-the-most-coronavirus-support/73333/

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