https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/31/california-tops-500000-coronavirus-cases-is-the-surge-finally-slowing/

July ended Friday as California’s worst month yet of the COVID-19 pandemic, with deaths hitting record after record and cases doubling to cross the half-million threshold — but there are signs that the spread of the virus has begun to slow down.

A total of 2,844 deaths were recorded in July, nearly 800 more than any month before it. Meanwhile, California counted 254,606 cases, surpassing the entirety of the pandemic before July. But growth appeared to be leveling off as the month came to a close, with test positivity and death rates decreasing, especially in prior hotspots like Southern California.