BOSTON — Massachusetts ranked second in a new study that measures states’ overall response to COVID-19.
“The first vaccine became available to all states at the same time in late 2020. States took different approaches to distributing doses to people, especially early on when vaccine supplies were limited,” stated the “Scorecard on State Health System Performance,” a report released Thursday by the Commonwealth Fund, which found that only Hawaii topped the Bay State in how well it handled the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based foundation that supports independent research on health care issues, ranked all states based on 56 measures of health care access and quality, service use and cost, health disparities and health outcomes during 2020.
