Arizona is #1, Bahrain is #4

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By David Leonhardt

Good morning. President Trump is pressuring schools to reopen in the fall. Civil rights groups are criticizing Facebook. And the virus outbreak in the U.S. Sunbelt is worse than in any country.

Arizona is #1, Bahrain is #4

There is no country in the world where confirmed coronavirus cases are growing as rapidly as they are in Arizona, Florida or South Carolina. The Sun Belt has become the global virus capital.

This chart ranks the countries with the most confirmed new cases over the past week, adjusted for population size, and treats each U.S. state as if it were a country. (Many states are larger in both landmass and population than some countries.)

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