New York hardest hit state by COVID-19, analysis reveals

New York was the hardest-hit state in terms of job losses and deaths per capita due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a new analysis has found.

On those two measurements combined, the Empire State had the “worst overall outcome” in saving people’s lives and jobs, according to government data by Hamilton Place Strategies. New York lost 55,000 jobs per million residents — the second-worst behind Hawaii — and suffered 3,300 extra deaths per million residents compared to pre-pandemic expectations, about the same as Arizona and Alabama, according to the report.