State's handling of Covid....

[Sled21]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/states-of-covid-performance-economic-schools-study-working-paper-lockdowns-11649621806

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-new-york-covid-lockdowns-worst-florida-best-study

Quote:A new study has graded states by how well they handled the coronavirus pandemic and its subsequent restrictions and lockdowns, showing a stark contrast between liberal and conservative states.

The Committee To Unleash Prosperity study compared state performance on metrics including the economy, education, and mortality from the virus, and examined how states and their respective governments handled the pandemic response.

"Shutting down their economies and schools was by far the biggest mistake governors and state officials made during COVID, particularly in blue states," Steve Moore, co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, told Fox News Digital. "We hope the results of this study will persuade governors not to close schools and businesses the next time we have a new virus variant."


New York, California, New Jersey and Illinois were among the worst in dealing with the coronavirus, performing "poorly on every measure," the report said.

These states "had high age-adjusted death rates; they had high unemployment and significant GDP losses, and they kept their schools shut down much longer than almost all other states," the report added.

States like Utah, Nebraska, Vermont, Montana, South Dakota and Florida — all governed by Republicans — received the highest scores in the study, first through sixth, respectively. In fact, 13 of the top 15 states in the study are governed by Republicans. (Montana had a Democratic governor until the 2020 election.)

The study also found no correlation in those states that enacted stringent travel, vocation and dining restrictions with lower death totals.

"The study verifies other studies which have found that locking down businesses, stores, churches, schools, and restaurants had almost no impact on health outcomes across states," the report determined. "States with strict lockdowns had virtually no better performance in COVID death rates than states that remained mostly open for business."

Throughout the first two years of the pandemic, liberal states were widely applauded for their restrictions while conservative states were lambasted.

Wall Street Journal requires a subscription, so I linked the Fox Story so you can yell "Fox News"...lol

[Belsnickel]

I'll wait for a study from a more non-partisan organization to assess COVID responses before putting stock in anything.

[Goalpost]

This type of stuff will end up being a political campaign topic I suppose. Biden will tout his job growth. But the report came out last November that 17 out of the top 20 states in job growth, and recovering the losses, came from republican led red States.

[KillerGoose]

I've ready through the study. At a high level view, the contents come down to this...

Red states did better in their economy, but had worse death rates.

Blue states had lower death rates, but did worse on their economy.

Red states tend to be more obese with a moderate correlation (0.60) which helps explain why red states had higher death rates. I think this is where the disconnect will be between people. As always, you are going to have people that view things differently. What is more important, lives or economy? It can be a complicated answer for some.


Here is a link to the study for those interested. I found it interesting.

[CKwi88]

I'll start with the "I'm not a statistician" disclaimer.

I think it's very difficult to draw significant conclusions while comparing different states. Each state is very unique. Comparing California and New York to Vermont and Nebraska is very much an apples and orange comparison.

[Belsnickel]

(04-11-2022, 12:30 PM)CKwi88 Wrote: I'll start with the "I'm not a statistician" disclaimer.

I think it's very difficult to draw significant conclusions while comparing different states. Each state is very unique. Comparing California and New York to Vermont and Nebraska is very much an apples and orange comparison.

I'm also not a statistician, I just play one on television (and use these sorts of statistics for program evaluation/assessment, the sort of thing they are purporting to do here). I read through the report and there is a lot of missing information from it to make any sort of qualified judgement on it, which is a judgement of a report in and of itself.

That being said (you knew I had to say something about it) I am really interested about their scoring system and would like to see more detail on the methodology. I am really confused about their scoring and how some of those numbers were derived. It all just leaves much to be desired, to be honest, and it smells of selective measures being used in an effort to reach a conclusion they were aiming for from the start.

[*Nately120*]

I'd say the state that handled covid the worst was the state of denial.