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States that reopened earlier in spring and summer of 2020 after issuing lockdowns and stay-at-home orders saw increased hospitalization rates, a new study finds.
Researchers at Purdue University looked at hospitalization and death data from all 50 states to find potential trends pre and post-lockdown from last year.
They found states that reopened earlier saw hospitalizations due to COVID increase by 50 percent across the country, and led to the second-largest nationwide COVID outbreak.
COVID-10 related hospitalizations increased by 50% across the country four weeks after many states rescinded lockdown orders. Pictured: Healthcare worker Demetra Ransom comforts a patient in the Covid-19 ward at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas
When the COVID-19 pandemic initially began in March 2020, many states went into some sort of lockdown.
The strictest states, like Michigan, limited a majority of travel and closed many non-essential businesses throughout the state.
Some of the more lenient states, like those in the southeast, set masking requirements and capacity
