Myrtle Beach was bracing Wednesday for an invasion of Fourth of July weekend revelers undeterred by reports that the South Carolina tourist mecca has been identified as a coronavirus hot spot.

Like Florida, Arizona and Texas, South Carolina is one of the states that was quick to reopen its economy and has now seen a rapid rise in new COVID-19 cases even as the pandemic has slowed elsewhere in the country.

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control announced 1,755 new confirmed cases of coronavirus and 19 more deaths on Tuesday.

That brings the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak began to 36,399 and confirmed deaths to 739, according to the latest NBC News tally.

And it has taken on a new urgency as the nationwide death toll from COVID-19 rose overnight to 128,363 and the total number of confirmed cases climbed to 2,653,591, NBC News figures show.

But in an interview Wednesday with Fox Business Network, Trump said he's "all for masks" but does not think they should be mandatory for people in public places.

"It wouldn't hurt him politically and it certainly wouldn’t hurt us economically and would probably help," former Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said of Trump Wednesday on CNBC.

Health Secretary Rachel Levine signed an order Wednesday requiring almost all residents to wear a mask any time they leave the house.

The grim new coronavirus numbers and renewed drive to get Americans to wear masks comes after Dr.

“We’re now having 40-plus thousand new cases a day,” Fauci said Tuesday.

Arizona shattered its single-day record for new COVID-19 cases with 4,877 tallied on Wednesday along with 88 more deaths, NBC News reported.

Texas on Wednesday reported 6,822 new cases and 56 deaths, Florida had 6,563 news cases and 145 deaths, and California, whose Democratic Gov.

"He doesn't know what he's talking about," Patrick, who is not a doctor, said of Fauci in a Fox News interview Tuesday.

In Florida, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis said Wednesday they're closing the beaches but keeping businesses open and strictly enforcing safety protocols to combat the coronavirus cases that continue to surge despite the hot and humid weather that many experts said would slow or kill the virus

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday said the resumption of indoor dining, which was supposed to start next week, has been postponed indefinitely