Which state has handled the pandemic best, overall?

[Sol]

Inspired by this thread, except restricting to just the U.S. and inverting the question.

Which state has done the best job at responding to the pandemic? This should include the bad days of early 2020 as well as more recent developments.

I'm sure folks will bring up Colorado, but I'd also like to mention Virginia and North Carolina, which have both overperformed their health statistics in relationship to Covid deaths.

[Ferguson97]

New Jersey. Locked down when necessary, opened up when it was no longer necessary. Has one of the highest vaccination rates in the country as well.

[Roll Roons]

New Jersey. Locked down when necessary, opened up when it was no longer necessary. Has one of the highest vaccination rates in the country as well.

Come on. Murphy did the same exact thing that Cuomo did with nursing homes and NJ has one of the five highest per capita death rates. Yeah, real bang-up job.

I'd say Vermont or Colorado handled it best.

[Xing]

Washington. Considering that we were the first state to have cases, it's pretty incredible that we avoided a similar outbreak seen in other states, and we quickly fell from most cases/deaths per capita to being close to the bottom of the pack. We've also returned at least mostly to normal at the proper time, once vaccines became widely available for everyone, and while we've had some increases in cases here and there and mask mandates in places that ask for vaccine cards are unnecessary in my opinion, we've never gone back to lockdowns or school closures (fingers crossed) since then.

[MATTROSE94]

Colorado, Vermont, and maybe New Jersey at least post vaccine.

[DavidB.]

In the U.S. obviously Florida. In Europe obviously Sweden, perhaps together with some countries in Eastern Europe.

[Suburbia]

New Jersey or Colorado

[Vespucci]

In the U.S. obviously Florida. In Europe obviously Sweden, perhaps together with some countries in Eastern Europe.

Even if your ideal COVID strategy is "do nothing", TX and GA are doing better than FL

[DavidB.]

In the U.S. obviously Florida. In Europe obviously Sweden, perhaps together with some countries in Eastern Europe.

Even if your ideal COVID strategy is "do nothing", TX and GA are doing better than FL

By what metric?

[Continential]

Colorado.

[Vespucci]

In the U.S. obviously Florida. In Europe obviously Sweden, perhaps together with some countries in Eastern Europe.

Even if your ideal COVID strategy is "do nothing", TX and GA are doing better than FL

By what metric?

Cases and deaths per capita

[KaiserDave]

Vermont+Colorado

[100% pro-life no matter what]

In the U.S. obviously Florida. In Europe obviously Sweden, perhaps together with some countries in Eastern Europe.

Even if your ideal COVID strategy is "do nothing", TX and GA are doing better than FL

By what metric?

Cases and deaths per capita

Florida has an older population, so, all things equal, its deaths per capita would be higher.  But, it was Georgia that initially did lead the charge on reopening (remember "Georgia's experiment in human sacrifice"?), along with Tennessee.  I think South Dakota and Alaska were right there too, but they are such small states with rural populations that they influenced the culture less.

[Biden his time]

Just based on the numbers, Utah seems to have struck a fine balance between low death rates and a well-functioning economy.

[RINO Tom]

The idea that COVID could be handled loses merit each day.

[Samof94]

Vermont?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Among large states, easily California (though admittedly it's a low bar given that the competition is a bunch of GOP demagogues and f**king Cuomo). I'm sure there are smaller states that did better, but I'm not too well versed in that.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Definitely not Belgium, not France, not Austria, not Greece and not Netherlands. That's for certain.

Best, likely Vietnam, Taiwan or Singapore. And Tonga.

[GregTheGreat657]

Florida. They did not lock up, and have an older population than the rest of the country, yet still did better with the virus than most of the places with the strictest lockdown measures

[SWE]

There was no serious attempt anywhere in this country to contain the spread of the virus

[Make America Grumpy Again]

Pre-vaccine: Utah
Post-vaccine: Massachusetts

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

Colorado for state with large amounts of people.

[RINO Tom]

There was no serious attempt anywhere in this country to contain the spread of the virus

There was no serious method that would have.