Texas is 5th Least Safe State During COVID-19

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This probably doesn't come as a big surprise but Texas isn't exactly one of the safe states when it comes to COVID-19. WalletHub recently put together some numbers from the pandemic to see what states were the safest. Before we get into the criteria, here's the complete list. Oh, and by the way, New Mexico is one of the safest.

1. Alaska
2. New Mexico
3. Hawaii
4. Maine
5. North Dakota
6. Colorado
7. Vermont
8. Wyoming
9. Washington
10. Rhode Island
11. Wisconsin
12. Idaho
13. Oregon
14. Minnesota
15. Missouri
16. Connecticut
17. Kansas
18. South Carolina
19. Montana
20. South Dakota
21. Utah
22. Illinois
23. New Hampshire
24. Iowa
25. Arizona
26. Virginia
27. Mississippi
28. Nevada
29. Oklahoma
30. North Carolina
31. Arkansas
32. Indiana
33. Maryland
34. Nebraska
35. West Virginia
36. Louisiana
37. Ohio
38. California
39. District of Columbia
40. Delaware
41. Pennsylvania
42. Alabama
43. Massachusetts
44. Kentucky
45. Michigan
46. Tennessee
47. Texas
48. New Jersey
49. Florida
50. New York
51. Georgia

So what are the criteria that put Texas this far down the list? You can't say it has to do with us having a Republican governor because New York is below us, and Governor Andrew Cuomo has really hosed up the pandemic response. Let's not forget he was totally doing some crafty things with the COVID-19 numbers.

Of the main criteria used to make this list, Texas doesn't come in the bottom five of any of them, but we're close enough to the bottom that we've at the bottom of the overall list. Here are the criteria:

• Vaccination rate
• Positive testing rate
• Hospitalization rate
• Death rate
• Transmission rate

Again, this probably didn't come as much of a surprise. But that doesn't mean we can't turn this thing around at the end. It's almost over. The end is in sight. Just keep safe over Easter weekend.