A sign warns against the Covid-19 coronavirus near the Navajo town of Tuba City, Arizona, on May 24, 2020. | Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images

Arizona’s governor claimed “it’s safe out there.” Then coronavirus cases skyrocketed.

The US is struggling with a resurgence of the coronavirus in the South and West. But the severity of Arizona’s Covid-19 outbreak is in a league of its own.

Over the week of June 30, Arizona reported 55 new coronavirus cases per 100,000 people per day. That’s 34 percent more than the second-worst state, Florida. It’s more than double Texas, another hard-hit state. It’s more than triple the US average.

Arizona also maintains the highest rate of positive tests of any state at more than 25 percent — meaning more than a quarter of people who are tested for coronavirus ultimately have it. That’s more than five times