(Bloomberg) -- 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. The U.S. posted an all-time daily high in reported deaths of 2,836 on Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins University. The U.S. recorded 205,137 Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, near a single-day record, although the seven-day average is about 8% below its peak, Johns Hopkins data show. According to the Covid Tracking Project:Massachusetts, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and California posted single-day record cases Wednesday.The worst states by current per-capita Covid-19 hospitalizations are South Dakota, Nevada, Indiana, Illinois and Oklahoma.
