"Also the Federal government isn't fully incharge of how the states are supposed to deal with a pandemic, they can give advice and tackle some issues directly within their jurisdiction, but most of the covid stuff wasn't."

Many states were specifically asking the federal government to give direction, and set up standards and national supply chains so they weren't competing with each other for medical supplies on an open market. It's not that they wanted to help but couldn't, they could have helped and didn't want to.