Which states had the best pandemic response?

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Vermont locked itself down early and reopened gradually. Washington state paid workers who couldn't do their jobs while quarantined. And Louisiana zeroed in on students who were most at-risk of falling behind and prioritized help for them first.



When Donald Trump decided to delegate the pandemic response to the states, he gave them a chance to call their own shots. Some states acted aggressively to contain COVID-19, others far less so.

We wondered with all those decisions put in states’ hands, which ones have done the best job so far?

For this story, reporters interviewed a wide range of health researchers, public officials and academic experts to ask them which states were standouts in their management of the pandemic. What we heard repeatedly were lessons culled from a handful of states that others could follow.

We’ve distilled their insights into three categories that represent the greatest challenges states are facing: fighting the virus, managing the economic fallout and reopening schools.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/which-states-had-the-best-pandemic-response/ar-BB1a0q4U?li=BBnb7Kz

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1. Florida here

I'm going with "anyone but us"

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5. I spoke to a doctor from Florida via phone a few days ago.

His exact words were, "Our governor is trying to kill us all."

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6. The Governor said that the Miami Dolphins were allowed to go to full stadium capacity

The Dolphins said, "Nah, we're good".

Not everyone is crazy. Just too many and the ones in charge.

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2. Uhh, why the hell is South Carolina highlighted?

It certainly didn't have anything close to a "best pandemic response."

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3. This is a better visualization

https://dangoodspeed.com/covid/total-cases-since-june

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4. The writer of this story must be from Vermont as she/he heaps praise...

on the state's response and says it should be a model as to how to do it.

Odd how a small, mostly rural state that didn't have tons of travelers flowing through it's unsuspecting airports and ports from Europe, which trump didn't shut down until it was too late, should be the model.

New York got slammed and the nation watched Gov. Cuomo calmly, through his daily, televised conferences, explain what was happening. What and how he was responding to first flatten the virus' up trajectory, then with effective shutdowns and appeals for medical personell from around the country for help, worked to plateau the curve of infections and deaths then steadily bought the upsurge down the other side of the curve until it was flattened.

Perhaps the article should've cited NY as a model for major urban areas which were unexpectedly slammed and Vermont as one for rural states who had the advantage of watching from afar and had time to react to a decidedly smaller and less intense surge of infection.