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/