JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — With the unemployment rate at 5.9% and around 48% of the population fully vaccinated, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released updated rankings for the States That Are Recovering the Quickest From COVID-19.
Wyoming ranked 49th overall, making it one of the states slowest to recover from the pandemic. Metrics instrumental in weighing Wyoming down were the state’s low percentage of fully vaccinated residents and its high rate of hospitalization.
To identify the states that are having the most successful recoveries, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 19 key metrics. The data set ranges from the share of the population fully vaccinated to the real GDP vs. pre-COVID levels.
