How do Red States take care of their most vulnerable population as opposed to Blue States. There are two outstanding states, Red State Alaska and Blu state Hawaii, both with zero deaths from COVID-19 in their Long Term Care homes.
After that we can see that the difference in deaths as a percentage of all deaths in their state is not that great, except that all states where over 80% of all Corona virus deaths in nursing homes and other LTC facilities are all Blue States.
The New York statistics are misleading, Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order forcing nursing homes to take in COVID patients, and when they were to ill they were taken to hospitals, died and were not counted as LTC patients any more. New Jersey more or less copied the New York order. Pennsylvania did likewise, but the health secretary Rachel Levine ralized what was happening and took her own mother out of her nursing home. Michigan had a special problem, too many COVID patients in greater Detroit nursing homes, but extra capacity in Northern Michigan, so she transferred Covid patients up north to even out the COVID load. These were all deeds of Democrat Governors.
Here is the table, per state. Three states have not reported yet.
…………………………………….Deaths Deaths
………………………………….per as per as
……………….Trump 10,000 percentage Clinton 10,000 percent
State Plurality LTC of all deaths State Plurality LTC of deaths
Wyoming 47.6% 12 28.6% D. C. 88.7% xx 34.3%
West Virginia 42.2% 38 56.6% Hawaii 32.2% 0 0%
Oklahoma 36.4% 72 53.8% California 28.8% 88 43.5%
North Dakota 36.3% 46 77% Vermont 28.5% 52 50%
Idaho 31.6% 42 57.1% Massachusetts 27.3% 796 62.2%
Kentucky 29.8% 80 57.4% Maryland 25.2% 326 54.7%
South Dakota 29.8% xx xx New York 21.3% 265 13.8%
Alabama 28.3% 82 44.4% Washington 16.2% 103 61.1%
Arkansas 26.6% 19 35.9% Illinois 16.0% 309 52.1%
Nebraska 26.3% 39 48.4% Rhode Island 15.6% 515 81.8%
Tennessee 26.2% 32 39.7% Connecticut 13.3% 808 48.2%
Kansas 21.0% 36 51.2% New Jersey 13.2% 866 42.2%
Montana 20.0% 7 35.3% Delaware 11.5% 407 62.8%
Louisiana 19.7% 385 39.9% Oregon 10.6% 28 57%
Indiana 19.3% 178 47.8% New Mexico 8.3% 168 45%
Missouri 19’1% xx xx Virginia 4.9% 176 56.4%
Mississippi 18.6% 198 50.6% Colorado 2.8% 210 49.4%
Utah 18.1% 42 42.5% Nevada 2.4% 107 26.1%
Alaska 15.2% 0 o% Maine 1.8% 29 54.7%
South Carolina 14.1% 83 43.9% Minnesota 1.5% 109 81.4%
Iowa 9,6% 107 48.4% New Hampshire 0.4% 180 81.9%
Texas 9.2% 66 45.8%
Ohio 8.6% 144 70.5%
Georgia 5.7% 176 48.8%
Arizona 4.1% 145 55.3%
North Carolina 3.8% 76 47.8%
Florida 1.3% 84 49.3%
Pennsylvania 1.2% 305 67.4%
Wisconsin 1.0% 47 41.7%
Michigan 0.3% xx xx
