Prognosis
Covid’s Sun-Belt Return Targets Miami, Phoenix and Las Vegas
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The latest wave of Covid-19 has inundated the Sun Belt, adding pressure on tourism-dependent cities brutalized by infections and deaths in July and August.
In the past week, Florida’s Miami-Dade County posted a daily average of 71 new cases per 100,000 residents, third most in the nation among counties of at least 1 million residents. It was just behind Salt Lake County, Utah, and Cuyahoga County, Ohio, which encompasses Cleveland.