3. Florida
Like Arizona, Florida is known to be one of the country’s major COVID epicenters and one of the four states responsible for half of all new COVID cases. Florida’s ICU situation is just as serious, says Covid Act Now, and the high positive test rate (19.3 percent) and infection rate (1.22) are not exactly helping either.
On July 11, Florida set the record for most single-day new COVID cases by any state with 15,299. There are currently more than 269,800 coronavirus cases and more than 4,240 deaths in the state.
