We told them so...
Of course, New Mexico with some the most authoritarian restrictions in the country is 48th with a score of F. Yet, the governor is running for reelection based on her COVID response measures.
I contend the bottom 10 also have a MUCH higher % of illegal invaders. They avoided scrutiny.
Here are those states (in the order given above) in terms of per-cent non-white population (smaller % numbers = greater fraction of whites; lower # position, greater fraction of whites) and party affiliation of their governor:
Best COVID results, according to posted article:
Utah; 20.3 % (#33) R
Neb; 19.7 % (#37) R
Vt; 6.6% (#49) D
Mon; 13.2% (#45) R
SD; 17.1% (#40) R
Fla; 44,4% (#8) R
NH: 8.8% (#47) R
Maine: 6.3% (#50) D
Ark: 26.6% (#25) R
Id: 17.1% (#41) R
States with the worst COVID results, according to the article:
NJ; 43.3% (#14) D
DC. [66.2%, > #1)] D
NY; 43.6% (#10) D
NM; 61.3% (#3) D
CA; 61.6% (#2) D
IL; 37.8% (#15) D
Md; 47.5% (#6) R (kind of)
Nev; 48.7% (#5) D
Conn; 31.3% (#22) D
Penn; 22.3% (#32) D
With rare exceptions, the states that fared best with COVID were those with a lower percentage of non-white citizens along with Republican governors; the worst were largely those with more non-whites and Democrat governors. The second factor is probably easier to understand - most of those Democrat governors were bigger morons that their Republican counterparts. The ethnicity factor is probably way more complex - it could be a function of general socio-economic conditions or amount of vaccine compliance or relative degree of obesity or any of many such factors, probably in some complex combination.