The Committee To Unleash Prosperity report analyzed state performance on economic, educational, and virus-related mortality measures, as well as how states and their governments handled the pandemic response.

This new study ranked states based on how successfully they handled the coronavirus outbreak and the restrictions and lockdowns that followed, revealing a wide divide between liberal and conservative states.

According to a new study, New York, New Jersey, and California failed to contain the COVID-19 epidemic due to strict lockdowns and restrictions, while Florida was among the best-performing states in the US. Let’s get into details about the topic.

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“The Committee To Unleash Prosperity Study”-Here Is How Your State Performed

The Committee To Unleash Prosperity issued the report, which assessed states by comparing COVID-19 results based on the count of deaths, the economy, and the influence on education.

Overall, states that had the most extreme pandemic lockdowns and were among the last to restore schools dominated the bottom ten on the study’s “report card.”

“The largest error governors and state officials made during COVID, particularly in blue states, was shutting down their businesses and schools,” Stephen Moore, one of the study’s authors and co-founder of the Committee To Unleash Prosperity, said Monday.

Despite former Governor Andrew Cuomo’s initial praise for his tight reaction to the pandemic, the Empire State did “poorly on every measure,” according to the research, ranking 49th overall.

According to the report, New Jersey was the state with the weakest performance. California, Illinois, and Washington, DC were among the other states to receive a grade of F.

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Casey Mulligan of the University of Chicago, Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation, and Phil Kerpen of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity co-authored the report.

The National Bureau of Economic Research also released the report card results.

Utah, Nebraska, Vermont, Montana, South Dakota, and Florida, all of which are run by Republicans, scored the highest marks in the research, ranking first through sixth. In fact, Republicans run 13 of the top 15 states in the research. (Until the 2020 election, Montana had a Democratic governor.)

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Utah, Nebraska, Vermont, and Florida topped the list, all of which are Republican-controlled.

According to the study, states that shut down businesses, churches, schools, and restaurants for extended periods of time did not have lower death rates than ones that stayed mostly open.

Nursing home policies could explain why some states have high mortality rates, like as New Jersey and New York, where Cuomo was chastised for ordering nursing homes to accept COVID-19 patients.

Meanwhile, Florida, whose Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, removed COVID regulations early in the pandemic, ranked 28th in mortality, according to the report. In terms of deaths, the tightly guarded state of California ranked 27th.

According to the study, keeping schools closed had no effect on the number of deaths among children or adults.

New York was ranked 33rd in terms of educational impact and second-to-last in terms of economic performance. California was placed 50th in terms of educational interruptions and 40th in terms of economic growth.

In comparison, Florida ranked third in terms of educational impact and thirteenth in terms of economic performance.