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Missouri, Arkansas Rank as Least Safe COVID States

Friday, July 9, 2021 at 6:13 AM

By Scott McCaulley @smcckc

Missouri and Arkansas continue to be noted for the resurgence in the states of COVID-19.

A recent study by the personal finance website Wallet Hub has ranked Missouri and Arkansas as the two worst states for the recent resurgence of COVID-19 and the Delta Variant.

Vaccination rates, hospitalizations and deaths, positive testing, and rates of COVID-19 transmission was the data used to come up with the rankings with both states near the bottom of the rankings in all of those categories.

For a link to the Wallet Hub Study, click here.

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