California Ranked 3rd In New Study On ‘Safest’ States During COVID-19; Data Highlights Blue And Red State Divide

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A caller survey has ranked California arsenic 1 of the safest states during the COVID-19 pandemic.

WalletHub released its caller ranking connected Thursday and looked astatine respective factors to gauge however states person been responding to the pandemic.

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Five cardinal metrics went into making the ranking: rates of COVID-19 transmission, affirmative testing, hospitalizations and death, and stock of the eligible colonisation getting vaccinated.

California’s full people was third-best, down lone Connecticut and Massachusetts. Wyoming, West Virginia, and Idaho received the bottommost 3 worst scores.

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Notably, California had the 5th lowest affirmative investigating complaint and second-lowest decease rate.

The survey besides recovered that states that voted for Joe Biden successful the 2020 statesmanlike predetermination were “safer” during COVID-19 than states wherever Donald Trump got much votes – a quality successful mean fertile from 17.35 for bluish states and 35.00 for reddish states.

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Read the afloat survey astatine WalletHub.com.

CBS13 Staff