South Carolina Ranked Among The Worst States For Coronavirus Health Infrastructure

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COVID-19 has exposed weaknesses in the country’s healthcare system, from supplies to staffing to bed counts, but issues have been far from uniform across the U.S. To find out which states were most prepared going into the pandemic, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on the States with the Best Health Infrastructure for Coronavirus.

To identify which states have the best health infrastructure, WalletHub compared the 50 states across 14 key metrics. Our data set ranges from the state’s Public Health Emergency Preparedness funding per capita to the share of the population that is uninsured and the number of hospital beds per capita.

States with the Best Health Infrastructure during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Overall Rank State Total Score
1 North Dakota 71.37
2 West Virginia 64.38
3 Mississippi 61.69
4 Tennessee 61.60
5 Oklahoma 61.58
6 Kentucky 60.47
7 Alaska 59.99
8 Kansas 59.73
9 Arkansas 59.08
10 Nebraska 59.08
11 Vermont 58.74
12 Missouri 57.96
13 Alabama 56.83
14 Maine 55.63
15 Wyoming 55.57
16 South Dakota 55.17
17 Washington 54.34
18 Hawaii 53.32
19 California 52.88
20 Louisiana 52.60
21 Oregon 52.30
22 Minnesota 52.14
23 Delaware 52.00
24 Illinois 51.42
25 Texas 50.44
26 North Carolina 49.41
27 Iowa 49.39
28 Florida 49.16
29 Ohio 48.80
30 New Mexico 48.14
31 Utah 48.07
32 Nevada 47.70
33 Montana 47.55
34 Georgia 47.25
35 Colorado 47.10
36 Idaho 47.02
37 Wisconsin 45.07
38 Massachusetts 44.98
39 Pennsylvania 44.70
40 South Carolina 44.12
41 Indiana 43.28
42 New Jersey 42.97
43 Rhode Island 41.99
44 New Hampshire 39.91
45 Arizona 39.54
46 Michigan 38.76
47 New York 38.52
48 Virginia 37.99
49 Maryland 33.64
50 Connecticut 32.75

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