https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/25/coronavirus-another-grim-milestone-for-california-as-concerning-metrics-continue-to-rise/

After a third straight day of new cases exceeding anything seen before this week, California is now home to the country’s top coronavirus hotspot — by total cases, at least.

Los Angeles County, population 10 million, reported another 1,228 positive tests Wednesday, pushing it past Cook County, Ill., for the most in the nation, according to Johns Hopkins University. The 89,490 confirmed cases in LA County make up nearly half of California’s 195,424 total cases, which rose Wednesday by 4,648, according to data compiled by this news organization — fewer than the 6,500-plus cases each of the past two days but the state’s third-highest daily case count since the outbreak began.